The prominent position assigned in M. Garnier’s remarks to a race called _Ho-nhi_ first suggested to me that the reading of the text might be ANIN instead of _Aniu_. And as a matter of fact this seems to my eyes to be clearly the reading of the Paris _Livre des Merveilles_ (Pauthier’s MS. B), while the Paris No. 5631 (Pauthier’s A) has _Auin_, and what may be either _Aniu_ or _Anin_. _Anyn_ is also found in the Latin Brandenburg MS. of Pipino’s version collated by Andrew Müller, to which, however, we cannot ascribe much weight. But the two words are so nearly identical in mediæval writing, and so little likely to be discriminated by scribes who had nothing to guide their discrimination, that one need not hesitate to adopt that which is supported by argument. In reference to the suggested identity of _Anin_ and _Ho-nhi_, M. Garnier writes again: “All that Polo has said regarding the country of Aniu, though not containing anything _very_ characteristic, may apply perfectly to the different indigenous tribes, at present subject to the Chinese, which are dispersed over the country from Talan to Sheuping and Lin-ngan. These tribes bearing the names (given above) relate that they in other days formed an independent state, to which they give the name of _Muang Shung_. Where this Muang was situated there is no knowing. These tribes have _langage par euls_, as Marco Polo says, and silver ornaments are worn by them to this day in extraordinary profusion; more, however, by the women than the men. They have plenty of horses, buffaloes and oxen, and of sheep as well. It was the first locality in which the latter were seen. The plateau of Lin-ngan affords pasture-grounds which are exceptionally good for that part of the world. [Illustration: Ho-nhi and other Tribes in the Department of Lin-ngan in S. Yun-nan (supposed to be the Anin country of Marco Polo). (From Garnier’s Work.)] “Beyond Lin-ngan we find the Ho-nhi, properly so called, no longer. But ought one to lay much stress on mere names which have undergone so many changes, and of which so many have been borne in succession by all those places and peoples?... I will content myself with reminding you that the town of _Homi-cheu_ near Lin-ngan in the days of the Yuen bore the name of _Ngo-ning_.” Notwithstanding M. Garnier’s caution, I am strongly inclined to believe that ANIN represents either HO-NHI or NGO-NING, if indeed these names be not identical. For on reference to Biot I see that the first syllable of the modern name of the town which M. Garnier writes HO_mí_, is expressed by the same character as the first syllable of NGO_ning_.