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to the arniy and the people of that country, that the imperial Government 

 has formerly had intercourse with Java by envoys from both sides and has 

 been in good harmony with it, but that they have lately cut the face of the 

 imperial envoy Meng Ch'i (*) and that you have come to punish them for that. " 



In the ninth month some troops were collected at Ch'ing-yüan (old 

 name of Ningpo) ; Shih-pi and Ike Mese went with the soldiers overland to 

 Ch'üan-chou , whilst Kau Hsing brought the baggage' with the ships. In the 

 course of the 1 lth month the troops from the three provinces of Fukien, Kiangsi 

 and Hukuang were all assembled at Ch'üan-chou and in the next month the 

 expedition put to sea. In the flrst month of the year 1293 they arrived at 

 the island Kö-lan ( 2 ) (Billiton) and there deliberated on their plan of campaign. 



In the second month Ike Mese and one of his subordinate commanders, 

 taking with them their secretaries and accompanied by three officers of the 

 Office of Pacification ( 3 ), who were charged to treat with Java and the other 

 countries, and by a Commander of Ten Thousand, who led 500 men and 

 10 ships, went first in order to bring the commands of the Emperor to this 

 country. The body of the army foliowed to Karimon ( 4 ) (Karimon Java) 

 and from here to a place on Java called Tu-ping-tsuh ( 5 ) (Tuban), where 

 Shih-pi and Kau Hsing met Ike Mese again and determined , together with 

 the other leaders, that half the army should be sent ashore and the other 

 half proceed at the same time in the ships. Shih-pi went by sea to the mouth 

 of the river Sugalu ( 6 ) (Sedayu) and from there to the small river Pa-tsieh ( 7 ) 

 (Kali Mas). On the other hand Kau Hsing and Ike Mese led the rest of 

 the troops , being cavalry and infantry , and marched from Tu-ping-tsuh over- 

 land , one of the Commanders of Ten Thousand leading the vanguard. Three 

 superior officers were sent in fast boats from Sugalu, with the order to go 



Hem. 



C) ïni 3Ö£ • ^ e ma y °bserve here, that in the Chinese text of this account a number ol' 

 subordinate officers are mentioned, all with their full naines; as these names are of no use for our 

 purpose and may fatigue the reader,- we will omit them as much as possible. 



O ^*Q "ÜÜ lil ' a ^ er having translated the different accounts of this expedition, we 

 will try to etablish the identity of this and other gcographieal names, occurring in 



o ïl JË ^1 also written jë HS ^1 . 



o § M PI. 



o *t 3Ê JE. 



o ^ * SS. 



