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CHAP. XIII. p. 311. ANGAMANAIN DOG-HEADED BARBARIANS. I09

inclined to accept Phillip's opinion. He says that Mao-shan is

one island, not a group of islands ; it is not proved that the

country of the Lo ch'a is the Nicobar Islands ; the name of Lo-

hing-man, Naked Barbarians, is, contrary to Schlegel's opinion,

given to the Nicobar as well as to the Andaman people ; the

name of Andaman appears in Chinese for the first time during the

thirteenth century in Chao Ju-kwa under the form Yen-t'o-man ;

Chao Ju-kwa specifies that going from Lambri (Sumatra) to

Ceylon, it is an unfavourable wind which makes ships drift

towards these islands ; on the other hand, texts show that the

Ts'ui-lan islands were on the usual route from Sumatra to Ceylon.

Gerini, Researches, p. 396, considers that Ts'ui-lan shan is but the

phonetic transcript of Tilan-chong Island, the north-easternmost

of the Nicobars.—See Hirth and Rockhill's Chau Ju-kwa,

p. 12 n. Sansk. nārikera, " cocoanuts," is found in Necuveram.

XIII., p. 309.

ANGAMANAI N.

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" When sailing from Lan-wu-li to Si-lan, if the wind is not

fair, ships may be driven to a place called Yen-t'o-man [in

Cantonese, An-t'o-man]. This is a group of two islands in the

middle of the sea, one of them being large, the other small ; the

latter is quite uninhabited. The large one measures seventy li

in circuit. The natives on it are of a colour resembling black

lacquer ; they eat men alive, so that sailors dare not anchor on

this coast.

" This island does not contain so much as an inch of iron, for

which reason the natives use (bits of) conch-shell (ck'ö-k'ü) with

ground edges instead of knives. On this island is a sacred relic,

(the so-called) ` Corpse on a bed of rolling gold. . . .' " (CHAD

JU-KWA, p. 147.)

XIII., p. 311.

DOG-HEADED BARBARIANS.

Rockhill in a note to Carpini (Rubruck, p. 36) mentions " the

Chinese annals of the sixth century (Liang Shu, bk. 54 ; Nan

shih, bk. 79) which tell of a kingdom of dogs (Kou kuo) in some

remote corner of north-eastern Asia. The men had human

bodies but dogs' heads, and their speech sounded like barking.

The women were like the rest of their sex in other parts of the

world."