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BOOK THIRD.

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JAPAN, THE ARCHIPELAGO, SOUTHERN INDIA, AND

THE COASTS AND ISLANDS OF THE INDIAN SEA.

H., p. 256, n. I.

NÁFÚN.

Regarding the similitude between Niilon and Nafún, Ferrand,

Textes, I., p. 115 n., remarks : " Ce rapprochement n'a aucune

chance d'être exact v, Nafūn est certainement une erreur de

graphie pour ~ 1~ Yākūt ou ua.A Nākūs."

III., p. 261.

JAPANESE WAR.

" Hung Ts'a-k'iu, who set out overland viá Corea and

Tsushima in 1281, is much more likely than Fan Wén-hu to be

Von-sain-chin (probably a misprint for chiu), for the same reason

Vo-cim stands for Yung-ch'ang, and sa for sha, ch' a, ts'a, etc.

A-la-han (not A-ts'ï-han) fell sick at the start, and was replaced

by A-ta-hai. To copy Abacan for Alahan would be a most

natural error, and I see from the notes that M. Schlegel has come

to the same conclusion independently." (E. H. PARKER, Asiatic

Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904, p. 147.)

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V., pp. 27o, 2 71 n.

CHAMBA.

Lieut.-General Sagatu, So Tu or So To, sent in 1278 an

envoy to the King known as Indravarman VI. or Jaya

Sinhavarman. Maspero (Champa, pp. 237, 254) gives the date

of 1282 for the war against Champa with Sagatu appointed at

the head of the Chinese Army on the 16th July, 1282 ; the war

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