[318] _Encyclopædia Britannica._ [319] _Jăn-jăn_ means a gradual but imperceptible advance. [320] Defined by Williams "as the dragon of morasses and thickets, which has scales and no horn, corresponding very nearly to the fossil iguanodon." _Vide_ the description (ante) from the _Pan-Tsaou-Kang-mu_, &c. [321] _Ying_--correct, true. [322] According to Williams, this is a young dragon without a horn, although others, as in the text, say with one. [323] _P'an_--to curl up, to coil. [324] The male and female principle. [325] See the notices in the body of the work from the _Shan Hai King_. [326] See the description of the dragon from the _P'au-Tsaou-Kang-mu_. [327] Waters of such specific gravity that even a feather would sink. [328] Probably a pair from each stream. [329] In Foh-kien. [330] Probably equivalent to "abbot." [331] Extract from the _Yuen Keen Lei Han_, vol. ccccxxxviii., p. 23. [332] In drilling an army there are names for all positions of the army. Thus, the general says: "Arrange yourselves like a snake, or like a dragon, or any other imaginable shape." [333] Williams gives this translation only, but I think there must be another meaning; probably some sort of reptile is indicated. * * * * * Transcriber's note: Footnote 128 appears on page 150 of the text, footnote 157 on page 168, and footnote 326 on page 400. The original text contains no corresponding markers. Several quotation marks are unmatched, as they were in the original book.