_The Archbishop of Soltania_ (_circa_ 1330):—“And so vast is the number of people that the soldiers alone who are posted to keep ward in the city of Cambalec are 40,000 men by sure tale. And in the city of CASSAY there be yet more, for its people is greater in number, seeing that it is a city of very great trade. And to this city all the traders of the country come to trade; and greatly it aboundeth in all manner of merchandize.” (_Ib._ 244–245.) _John Marignolli_ (in China 1342–1347):—“Now Manzi is a country which has countless cities and nations included in it, past all belief to one who has not seen them.... And among the rest is that most famous city of CAMPSAY, the finest, the biggest, the richest, the most populous, and altogether the most marvellous city, the city of the greatest wealth and luxury, of the most splendid buildings (especially idol-temples, in some of which there are 1000 and 2000 monks dwelling together), that exists now upon the face of the earth, or mayhap that ever did exist.” (_Ib._ p. 354.) He also speaks, like Odoric, of the “cloister at Campsay, in that most famous monastery where they keep so many monstrous animals, which they believe to be the souls of the departed” (384). Perhaps this monastery may yet be identified. Odoric calls it _Thebe_. [See _A. Vissière, Bul. Soc. Géog. Com._, 1901, pp. 112–113.—H. C.] Turning now to Asiatic writers, we begin with _Wassáf_ (A.D. 1300):— “KHANZAI is the greatest city of the cities of Chín, “‘_Stretching like Paradise through the breadth of Heaven._’