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CHAP, in Dr. Morrison’s Dictionary is translated kins;, and that his residence 
was not far from Napa-kiang; but An-yah provoked me much by 
May, always evading this question. Sometimes he said it was four days to 
the north-east, at others that it was only one, and at last that it was at 
a place called Sheui, or Shoodi. Some of the natives whom I interrogated 
on this subject declared it was at Ee-goo-see-coo, about nine leagues to 
the northward ; others, however, told me the name of his residence was 
Shoodi, or Sheui, as before. Mr. Collie was also informed it was at 
Shoodi; therefore, Sheui, or Shoodi, is in all probability the correct 
name of the place. As the natives pointed out to me the town upon 
the hill at the back of Napa-kiang as Shoodi, and as another party 
named it to Mr. Collie Shumi, we may presume that this town is the 
capital ofLooChoo; and this is the conclusion, as already remarked, 
that Captain Hall came to after many inquiries on the same subject. 
Indeed I should think there could not be much doubt about it, as it 
answers very well both in name and position to the capital described 
by Supao-Koang, who remarks that the king holds his court in the 
south-west part of the island. The ground it stands upon is called 
Cheuli'^, and that near this place the palace of the king is situated 
upon a hill. In another part he says that the space between Napa- 
kiang and the palace is almost one continued town-f-. Mr. Klaproth, 
however, has published extracts from some Chinese documents, which 
place the capital twenty lis (ten miles ?) east of Napa-kiang. 
In the journals of my officers, I find that some of them were 
informed by the inhabitants that tribute was sent to China only once 
in seven years, and others, that it was paid every year. Kaempfer also 
says that tribute is sent every year to the Tartarian monarch, in token 
of submission. By the Chinese accounts it is demanded every second 
year, as I have already stated. M. J. Klaproth, quoting one of these 
authors, says, in 1654 Loo Choo sent Chang-Chy, the king’s son, with 
an ambassador to Pekin, when it was arranged that every second year 
an ambassador should be sent to that court with tribute, which should 
* Cheuli by the Loo Chooans would be pronounced Cheudi, in the same way as they call 
Loo-Choo Doo-Choo. 
t Letters Edifiantes, p. 340. 
