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le dans la langue chinoise de l'epoque, c'est-a-dire Man-tseu; mais, au lieu de Manzi, les Mongols avaient adopte un autres nom, Nangias, dont il n'y a pas trace dans Marco Polo. On pourrait multiplier ces exemples." XXXIII., p. 456, n. Instead of _Hui Heng_, read _Hiu Heng_. [1] _Industries anciennes et modernes de l'Empire chinois_. Paris, 1869, pp. 145, 149. [2] _Resume des principaux Traites chinois sur la culture des muriers et l'education des vers a soie_, Paris, 1837, p. 98. According to the notions of the Chinese, Julien remarks, everything made from hemp like cord and weavings is banished from the establishments where silkworms are reared, and our European paper would be very harmful to the latter. There seems to be a sympathetic relation between the silkworm feeding on the leaves of the mulberry and the mulberry paper on which the cocoons of the females are placed. [3] _Ko chi king yuan_, Ch. 37, p. 6. [4] _Relations des Musulmans avec les Chinois (Centenaire de l'Ecole des Langues Orientales vivante_, Paris, 1895, p. 17). [5] Ibid., p. 20. [6] _Ming Shi_, Ch. 81, p. 1.--The same text is found on a bill issued in 1375 reproduced and translated by W. Vissering (_On Chinese Currency_, see plate at end of volume), the minister of finance being expressly ordered to use the fibres of the mulberry tree in the composition of these bills. [7] _Memoires relatifs a l'Asie_, Vol. I., p. 387. [8] A. WYLIE, _Notes on Chinese Literature_, p. 64. The copy used by me (in the John Crerar Library of Chicago) is an old manuscript clearly written in 4 vols. and chapters, illustrated by nine ink-sketches of types of Mohammedans and a map. The volumes are not paged. [9] _Ancient Khotan_, Vol. I., p. 134. [10] _Mikroskopische Untersuchung alter ostturkestanischer Papiere_, p. 9 (Vienna, 1902). I cannot pass over in silence a curious error of this scholar when he says (p. 8) that it is not proved that _Cannabis sativa_ (called by him "genuine hemp") is cultivated in China, and that the so-called Chinese hemp-paper should be intended for China grass. Every tyro in things Chinese knows that hemp (_Cannabis sativa_) belongs to the oldest cultivated plants of the Chinese, and that hemp-paper is already listed among the papers invented by Ts'ai Lun in A.D. 105 (cf. CHAVANNES, _Les livres chinois avant l'invention
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