They train excellent horses, love archery and hunting; and so expert are they in tactics that _their soldiers rank as the best among all the uncivilized tribes_. There is this proverb: ‘The Lo Dragons of Shwui-si rap the head and strike the tail,’ which is intended to indicate their celerity in defence.” (_Bridgman_, pp. 272–273.) The character _Lo_, here applied in the Chinese Tract to these people, is the same as that in the name of the Kwangsi _Lo_ of M. Pauthier. I append a cut (opposite page) from the drawing representing these Kolo-man in the original work from which Bridgman translated, and which is in the possession of Dr. Lockhart. [I believe we must read _To-lo-man_. _Man_, barbarian, _T’u-lao_ or _Shan-tzŭ_ (mountaineers) who live in the Yunnanese prefectures of Lin-ngan, Cheng-kiang, etc. T’u-la-Man or T’u-la barbarians of the Mongol Annals. (_Yuen-shi lei-pien_, quoted by Devéria, p. 115.)—H. C.] NOTE 2.—Magaillans, speaking of the semi-independent tribes of Kwei-chau and Kwang-si, says: “Their towns are usually so girt by high mountains and scarped rocks that it seems as if nature had taken a pleasure in fortifying them” (p. 43). (See cut at p. 131.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] On the other hand, M. Garnier writes: “I do not know any name at all like _Kolo_, except _Lolo_, the generic name given by the Chinese to the wild tribes of Yun-nan.” Does not this look as if _Kolo_ were really the old name, _Luluh_ or Lolo the later? CHAPTER LIX. CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF CUIJU. Cuiju is a province towards the East.{1} After leaving Coloman you travel along a river for 12 days, meeting with a good number of towns and villages, but nothing worthy of particular mention. After you have travelled those twelve days along the river you come to a great and noble city which is called FUNGUL. The people are Idolaters and subject to the Great Kaan, and live by trade and handicrafts. You must know they manufacture stuffs of the bark of certain trees which form very fine summer clothing.{2} They are good soldiers, and have paper-money. For you must understand that henceforward we are in the countries where the Great Kaan’s paper-money is current. [Illustration: The Koloman, after a Chinese drawing. “=Coloman est une provence vers levant.... Il sunt mult belles jens et ne sunt mie bien blances mès brunz. Il sunt bien homes d’armes ...=”]