Hsi Yang Chi (*), //a Tale of the Western . Sea". A novel with strong 

 Buddhistic tendéncies, based on the Mongol expedition to Java in 1293, and on the 

 mission of Chêng Ho in the beginning of the 15th century. It abounds in different 

 details , which however have no other guarantee than the fancy of the writer. 



Nan-fang Ts'au-mu Ghuang ( 2 ), //Plants and trees of southern regions", 

 publisbed during the Tsin dynasty (265 — 419), and chiefly describing plants from Annam. 



Ying-yai Shêng-lan Tsi ( 3 ), //an Abstract of the General Account of the 

 Shores of the Ocean". This is the Ying-yai Shêng-lan in a new form, by a certain 

 Chang Shêng, who objected to the unpolished style of the original and therefore rewrote 

 it , improving perhaps the style , but spoiling the value of the work altogether , by 

 numerous omissions and errors. 



There is one work which we have been unable to procure and which may con- 

 tain some new information. It is the 



Tau-yi Chi-lüeh ( 4 ), an account of the various nations in the Malay ar- 

 chipelago, written about 1350 (vide Wylie. Notes on Chinese literature p. 47). In 

 the Hai-Kuo Tu-chi we find only very few , and most insignificant extracts from it , 

 by which circumstance some doubt is thrown on the value of this little book. 



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