For assuming that _Cugiu_ was Fortune’s Chuchu at the western base of the Bohea mountains (see note 3, ch. lxxix.), and that the traveller reached Tsun-ngan-hien, in two marches, I see that from Tsin-tsun, near Tsun-ngan-hien, Fortune says he could have reached Fu-chau in four days by boat. Again Martini, speaking of the skill with which the Fo-kien boatmen navigate the rocky rapids of the upper waters, says that even from _Pu-ch’eng_ the descent to the capital could be made in three days. So the thing is quite possible, and the G. Text may be quite correct. (See _Fortune_, II. 171–183 and 210; _Mart._ 110.) A party which recently made the journey seem to have been six days from _Hokeu_ to the Wu-e-shan and then five and a half days by water (but in stormy weather) to Fu-chau. (_Chinese Recorder_, as above.) NOTE 8.—Pauthier supposes Unken, or _Vuguen_ as he reads it, to be _Hukwan_, one of the _hiens_ under the immediate administration of Fu-chau city. This cannot be, according to the lucid reading of the G. T., making Unken 15 miles from the chief city. The only place which the maps show about that position is _Min-ts’ing hien_. And the Dutch mission of 1664–1665 names this as “_Binkin_, by some called Min-sing.” (_Astley_, III. 461.) [Mr. Phillips writes (_T. Pao_, I. 224–225): “Going down stream from Kien-Ning, we arrive first at Yen-Ping on the Min Main River. Eighty-seven _li_ further down is the mouth of the Yiu-Ki River, up which stream, at a distance of eighty _li_, is Yiu-Ki city, where travellers disembark for the land journey to Yung-chun and Chinchew. This route is the highway from the town of Yiu-Ki to the seaport of Chinchew. This I consider to have been Polo’s route, and Ramusio’s Unguen I believe to be Yung-chun, locally known as Eng-chun or Ung-chun, a name greatly resembling Polo’s Unguen. I look upon this mere resemblance of name as of small moment in comparison with the weighty and important statement, that ‘this place is remarkable for a great manufacture of sugar.’ Going south from the Min River towards Chinchew, this is the first district in which sugar-cane is seen growing in any quantity. Between Kien-Ning-Foo and Fuchau I do not know of any place remarkable for the _great_ manufacture of sugar. Pauthier makes How-Kuan do service for Unken or Unguen, but this is inadmissible, as there is no such place as How-Kuan; it is simply one of the divisions of the city of Fuchau, which is divided into two districts, viz. the Min-Hien and the How-Kuan-Hien. A small quantity of sugar-cane is, I admit, grown in the How-Kuan division of Fuchau-foo, but it is not extensively made into sugar. The cane grown there is usually cut into short pieces for chewing and hawked about the streets for sale. The nearest point to Foochow where sugar is made in any great quantity is Yung-Foo, a place quite out of Polo’s route. The great