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named are in Kiang-si. For _Kiang-Che_, the province of Kinsay, then included the eastern part of Kiang-si. (See _Cathay_, p. 270.) [Mr. Phillips writes (_T. Pao_, I. 223-224): "Eighty-five _li_ beyond Lan-ki hien is Lung-yin, a place not mentioned by Polo, and another ninety-five _li_ still further on is Chuechau or Keuchau, which is, I think, the Gie-za of Ramusio, and the Cuju of Yule's version. Polo describes it as the last city of the government of Kinsai (Che-kiang) in this direction. It is the last Prefectural city, but ninety _li_ beyond Chue-chau, on the road to Pu-cheng, is Kiang-shan, a district city which is the last one in this direction. Twenty _li_ from Kiang-shan is Ching-hu, the head of the navigation of the T'sien-T'ang river. Here one hires chairs and coolies for the journey over the Sien-hia Pass to Pu-cheng, a distance of 215 _li_. From Pu-cheng, Fu-chau can be reached by water in 4 or 5 days. The distance is 780 _li_."--H.C.] [1] "_Est sus un mont que parte le Flum, gue le une moitie ala en sus e l'autre moitie en jus_" (G.T.). [2] One of the _Hien_, forming the special districts of Hang-Chau itself, now called _Tsien-tang_, was formerly called _Tang-wei-tang_. But it embraces the _eastern_ part of the district, and can, I think, have nothing to do with _Tanpiju_. (See _Biot_, p. 257, and _Chin. Repos._ for February, 1842, p. 109.) CHAPTER LXXX. CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF FUJU. On leaving Cuju, which is the last city of the kingdom of Kinsay, you enter the kingdom of FUJU, and travel six days in a south-easterly direction through a country of mountains and valleys, in which are a number of towns and villages with great plenty of victuals and abundance of game. Lions, great and strong, are also very numerous. The country produces ginger and galingale in immense quantities, insomuch that for a Venice groat you may buy fourscore pounds of good fine-flavoured ginger. They have also a kind of fruit resembling saffron, and which serves the purpose of saffron just as well.[NOTE 1] And you must know the people eat all manner of unclean things, even the flesh of a man, provided he has not died a natural death. So they look out for the bodies of those that have been put to death and eat their flesh, which they consider excellent.[NOTE 2] Those who go to war in those parts do as I am going to tell you. They shave the hair off the forehead and cause it to be paint
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