OF CHINA. 11 



from the statements just quoted, must be taken together as a precise 

 indication that sericulture was not practiced in that part of China 

 proper during the earliest period. Therefore it was special only to the 

 eastern part of the country. 



Notes — 



5) Cf. Tso chuen Siang Kung, year xiv, 1. and The Languages of China 

 before the Chinese, par. 28 and 89. 



6) On this name cf . my special paper : Onomastic similarity of Nakhunte 

 of Susiana and Nahhunte of China: B & 0,R. IV. pp. 256-264. 



7) Hwang P'u-mi,! 7 ?' wang she hi, — Taiping yil Ian, kiv.135, fol.7 verso. 

 Hwang-ti had twenty five children by his four wives. In the Persian 

 legends Kaiomars, the first king, had also twenty five children, according 

 to the Bundehesh. 



8) Si-ling, (9852-11803) i.e. West Hills. The Nos. in brackets 

 are throughout those of the Chinese characters as arranged in the old 

 Dictionary of Basile de Glemona edited by deGuignes (1813), and in the 

 Dictionarium Linguae Sinicm, A.M.D.G., Ho-kien, Jan. 1877. It is the 

 most convenient system of indicating the characters when they are not 

 available. — The Si-ling have not been identified as yet, because those 

 of central China have no possible relation with the former, as they wero 

 so named as late as the Han dynasty. The Si-ling of Nakhunte's 

 time must be looked for along the Kuenlun range. 



9) Litt. Grand-mother of thread, a rather ominous meaning, 



10) W. Williams, Middle Kingdom. Rev. Edit, I. 71, II. 33.— It must be 

 remarked that Lui-tsu was the mother of Tchang-y, who was sent away 

 near the Joh water, as reported by Szema-Tsien's She-h. and other 

 works. 



11) In Hwang P'u-mi's work quoted supra, note 7. 



12) Shu King, Shun tlen, 8. 



13) Yh King, Kwa XXII. The character is (10450). 



14) g|j Wu and Jf Kung. 



15) Written : 3^^* se and HJg 7j£ tcheh wen. 



16) Written: se (7853)as in preceding note. — Also: lead, pine-trees, and 

 curious stones. 



17) Written: Yen-se.( 1076-78 53). Such worms exist as yet in theprovince* 

 Cf. Dr. Fauvel : The wild silkworms of the Province of Shantung, in 

 China Review, vol. VI, p. 89. 



18) Its articles of tribute were earth of fire different colours ; with the 

 variegated feathers of pheasants from the valleys of the Yu ; the soli- 

 tary clryandra from the South of Mount Yh ; and the sounding stones 

 that seemed to float, near the banks of the Sze. 



19) Written : hiuen sien hao (6051-8078-12656), 



20) Written: Tcheh Pet (8021-10408).— And also: gold, silver and cop- 

 per; yao (5981) and teen (5948) stones; bamboos small and large ; ele- 

 phants' teeth, hides, feathers, hair and timber ; and from islanders, 

 garments of grass. Also small oranges and pummeloes. 



21) Written : hiuen hiun (6051-8087). 



22 ) Also : feathers,hair, ivory and hides; gold, silver and copper ; the 

 tcKun tree, wood for bows, cedars and cypresses ; Kw'en and lu bam- 

 boos, hoo-tree wood, three- ribbed rush, &c. 



