[34] The Chinese possess itineraries and directories for the whole empire, for every province, and for every large town or place; I shall therefore always extract the notices which are to be found in the _Itinerary of the Province Kwang tung_ (_Kwang tung tsuen too_,) referring to the places mentioned in our text. _Hwy_ is _Hwy chow foo_, from Pekin 6365 le, and easterly from Canton 400 le; one town of the second, and ten towns of the third rank are appended to this district-metropolis. The whole district pays 14,321 leang, or tael. Here is the celebrated _Lo fow_ mountain. Lo fow consists really of two united mountains, of which one is called _Lo_ and the other _Fow_, said to be three thousand six hundred _chang_ in height, or 36,000 feet (?). The circumference is about 500 le. Here are the sixteen caverns where the dragon dwells, spoken of in the books of the Tao sect. You meet on these mountains with bamboo from seventy to eighty feet in circumference. Kwang tung tsuen too, p. 5v. _Chaou_ is _Chaou chow foo_, from Pekin 8,540 and easterly from Canton 1,740 le; eleven towns of the third rank belong to it. The whole district pays 65,593 leang, or tael. A tael is equal to 5.798 decimal, troy weight; and in the East-India Company's accounts the tael of silver is reckoned at six shillings and eightpence sterling. _Foo_ is the Chinese name for the first class of towns; _Chow_ for the second, _Hëen_ for the third. I sometimes have translated _Chow_ by district-town, and _Hëen_ by borough, or market-town. [35] _Kaou_ is _Kaou chow foo_, from Pekin 7,767, north-west from Canton 930 le; the district, and five towns of the third class, paying together 62,566 leang, are dependent on the district-metropolis. _Lëen_ is _Lëen chow foo_, from Pekin 9,065, from Canton 1,515 le; the district and two towns, paying together 1,681 leang, are dependent on the district-metropolis. _Luy_ is _Luy chow foo_, from Pekin 8,210, westerly from Canton 1,380 le; the district and its towns, paying together 13,706 leang, are dependent on the district-metropolis. _Këung_ is _Këung chow foo_, the capital of the island _Hae nan_ or Hainan, from Pekin 9,690, south-west from Canton 1,680 le; three district towns, and ten towns of the third class, paying together 89,447 leang, are dependent on this capital. There is a town also called _Këung shan hëen_, and both town and capital take their name from the mountain _Këung_. _Kin_ is _Kin chow_, dependent on _Lëen chow foo_, and far from it 140 le. _Tan_ is _Tan chow_, a town of Hainan, south-west from the capital 370 le; the area of the town is 31 le. _Yae_ is _Yae chow_, a town of Hainan, southerly from the capital of the island 1,114 le. About this town many pirates have their lurking-place. This circumstance may have caused the mistake of Captain Krusenstern, stating that in A.D. 1805, the pirates who infest the coast of China had obtained possession of the whole island of Hainan.