154 Notice of a Chinese Geographical work, [Feb. 



fine silk cloth, birds* -nests, fish-fins, the vegetable chi tsdi, sugar, and 

 other things like Kdo chi. 



Kdo chi is named Tung king (or the eastern capital) ; and Kwdng 

 nan, Si king, or the western capital. It is more powerful than Kdo chi. 

 On the south are Lo Idi, Tung po chdi,* and Kwan td md. The south- 

 west borders with Tsim lo ;f the north-west with Min tin.% They plant 

 prickly bamboos around their towns. The natives are excellent divers. 

 When a ship of the Red Hairs, driven by stress of weather, enters 

 Kivdng nan wan, the people of the country send about a hundred little 

 boats, the crews of which carry with them bamboo joints containing a 

 quantity of fine cord. These dive into the water, and having nailed the 

 fine cords to the bottom of the vessel, row quickly away, so as to drag 

 the vessel aground in shallow water. They then pillage and burn her. 

 Now the vessels of the Red Hairs avoid coming even in sight of the 

 hills of Kwdng nan. Should they behold these, the master immediately 

 tells the mate how the nation practises this severity. § 



Proceeding from Hea man towards Kwdng nan, you pass by Nan 6, || 

 and sighting Lo wdn shdri* in Kwdng tung, and Td chiu theo in Khing 

 chiu fu ; cross the Ocean of the Seven Isles by the Chim pa I6f 

 mountain outside of Kwdng nan, and so reach Kwdng nan. They 

 reckon the navigation to be seventy-two king. 



Kdo chi lies to the west of the Seven Isles, and to reach it you 

 must go round by the north. From HSa man to Kdo chi is a navi- 

 gation of seventy-four keng. 



The Sea of the Seven Isles% lies south-east of Khing tao and Wdn 



* This is the Chinese named of Camboja. See Crawford, Embassy to Siam 

 and Cochin China. 

 f Siam. 

 t Ava. 

 § M. Klaproth turns this passage, — " le capitaine dit a 1' equipage." " Mesamis? 



ce long pays la est hien dangereux." The word J>^ chang, means indeed " long" 

 but it belongs to the preceding member of the sentence, and forms with the word 



|0? from a compound meaning "mate." (See Morrison's Diet. Vol. I. p. 81.) 

 || This is the island marked Namoa on our maps lying about 70 or 80 miles to the 

 south-west of Amoy. 



* In the Canton province. f Champeilo. 



% This is that portion of the China Sea situated South of the Canton province 



