The journey from Vugui to Ghiuju is said to be through a succession of towns and villages, looking like a continuous city. Fortune, whose journey occurred before the T’ai-P’ing devastations, speaks of the approach to Kiu-chau as a vast and beautiful garden. And Mr. Milne’s map of this route shows an incomparable density of towns in the Ts’ien T’ang valley from Yen-chau up to Kiu-chau. _Ghiuju_ then will be KIU-CHAU. But between Kiu-chau and Chang-shan it is impossible to make four days: barely possible to make two. My map (_Itineraries_, No. VI.), based on D’Anville and Fortune, makes the _direct_ distance 24 miles; Milne’s map barely 18; whilst from his book we deduce the distance travelled by water to be about 30. On the whole, it seems probable that there is a mistake in the figure here. [Illustration: Marco Polo’s route from Kinsai to ZAITUN, illustrating Mr. G. Phillips’ theory.] From the head of the great Che-kiang valley I find two roads across the mountains into Fo-kien described. One leads from _Kiang-shan_ (not Chang-shan) by a town called Ching-hu, and then, nearly due south, across the mountains to Pu-ch’eng in Upper Fo-kien. This is specified by Martini (p. 113): it seems to have been followed by the Dutch Envoy, Van Hoorn, in 1665 (see _Astley_, III. 463), and it was travelled by Fortune on his return _from_ the Bohea country to Ningpo. (II. 247, 271.) The other route follows the portage spoken of above from _Chang-shan_ to Yuh-shan, and descends the river on that side to _Hokeu_, whence it strikes south-east across the mountains to Tsung-ngan-hien in Fo-kien. This route was followed by Fortune on his way _to_ the Bohea country. Both from Pu-ch’eng on the former route, and from near Tsung-ngan on the latter, the waters are navigable down to Kien-ning fu and so to Fu-chau. Mr. Fortune judges the first to have been Polo’s route. There does not, however, seem to be on this route any place that can be identified with his Cuju or Chuju. Ching-hu seems to be insignificant, and the name has no resemblance. On the other route followed by Mr. Fortune himself from that side we have Kwansin fu, _Hokeu_, Yen-shan, and (last town passed on that side) _Chuchu_. The latter, as to both name and position, is quite satisfactory, but it is described as a small poor town. _Hokeu_ would be represented in Polo’s spelling as Caghiu or Cughiu. It is now a place of great population and importance as the entrepôt of the Black Tea Trade, but, like many important commercial cities in the interior, not being even a _hien_, it has no place either in Duhalde or in Biot, and I cannot learn its age.