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other, and when they summon their servants, they do so by clapping 

 their hands. 



They have no traffic in slaves ; but they engage themselves for a cer- 

 tain time, and on the lapse of that time they return home. 



Two nations are tributary [to Yi pan ] . On the north is Ma tdo, which 

 is bounded by Chiu sin.* Chia sin pays tribute through Md tdo, and 

 Ma tao remits it to Yi pan. On the south is Sd tsi md, bounded by Liu 

 hhiu.-f Liu khiu is tributary to Sd tsi md, and Sd tsi md to Yi pan. 

 The kings of both islands obey the commands [of the king of Yi pan.] 



The seasons are similar to those of Shan tuny, Kong ndn and Chi hong. 



Chang hi and Pho tho lie east and west of each other, at a distance 

 of forty keng. He man% is distant from Chang hi sixty-two keng. 

 With a north wind you go from Wu tao man ; with a south wind from 

 Thin thang man. By Ma tao lies the road to Ting chiu : Sa tsi ma 

 is the road to W&n thai. These countries produce gold, silver, copper, 

 varnish, porcelain, every variety of flowers, and printed goods. The 

 sea produces lung gin heong, the fish/w, bichu de mar, and every kind 

 of [marine] vegetable. 



The hills of Sd tsi md are full of caverns ; from these issue deep and 

 cold streams admirably adapted for tempering cutting instruments. 

 They produce also horses, and very strong men. 



In the times of the Emperor Ke tsing,§ there were freebooters from 

 Wai at Sa tsi ma. Merchant ships from Yi pan anchor at Yung he, 

 because formerly eighteen fishermen of Wai, being driven by a strong- 

 wind to the Middle Kingdom, crafty men,|| through their instrumenta- 

 lity, excited an insurrection. They wore beards and shaved the hair 



skilful horsemen : hence the profound contempt of death which they imbibe even in 

 their earliest years. This disregard of death, which they prefer to the slightest dis- 

 grace, extends to the very lowest classes of the Japanese. — Titsingh, Illust. of 

 Japan, page 148. 



* On the Chinese map this is laid down on the southern extremity of the Corean 

 peninsula ; Md tdo must be the island Tsu si ma of our maps. They are not includ - 

 ed in the Chinese map. 



f The Islands called Loo choo, on our maps. I cannot, in the absence of native 

 maps, identify Sa tsi ma, but a little further on we are told it lies to the north of 

 Liu Tchiu. % Amoy. 



§ Ke tsing of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1522 to 1567, A. D. 



y i. e. of the Chinese nation. 



