---------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Dr. Medhurst calls the proper name of the city, as distinct from the _Fu_, _Chinkang_ (_Dict. of the Hok-keen dialect_). Dr. Douglas has suggested _Chinkang_, and _T’swan-kok_, _i.e._ “Kingdom of T’swan” (chau), as possible explanations of _Chonka_. [2] Mr. Phillips’s views were issued first in the _Chinese Recorder_ (published by Missionaries at Fu-Chau) in 1870, and afterwards sent to the R. Geo. Soc., in whose Journal for 1874 they appeared, with remarks in reply more detailed than I can introduce here. Dr. Douglas’s notes were received after this sheet was in proof, and it will be seen that they modify to a certain extent my views about Zayton, though not about Fu-chau. His notes, which do more justice to the question than Mr. Phillips’s, should find a place with the other papers in the Geog. Society’s Journal. [3] There is a capital lithograph of Fu-chau in _Fortune’s Three Years’ Wanderings_ (1847), in which the city shows as on a river, and Fortune always so speaks of it; _e.g._ (p. 369): “The river runs through the suburbs.” I do not know what is the worth of the old engravings in Montanus. A view of Fu-chau in one of these (reproduced in _Astley_, iv. 33) shows a broad creek from the river penetrating to the heart of the city. [4] The words of the G. T. are these: “_Il hi se fait grant mercandies de perles e d’autres pieres presiose, e ce est por ce que les nés de Yndie hi vienent maintes con maint merchaant qe usent en les ysles de Endie, et encore voz di que ceste ville est prés au port de Caiton en la mer Osiane; et illuec vienent maintes nés de Indie con maintes mercandies, e puis de cest part vienent les nés por le grant flum qe je voz ai dit desoure jusque à la cité de Fugui, et en ceste mainere hi vienent chieres cousse de Indie._” [5] It is odd enough that Martini (though M. Pauthier apparently was not aware of it) does show a fort called _Haiteu_ at the mouth of the Min; but I believe this to be merely an accidental coincidence. The various readings must be looked at together; that of the G. T. which I have followed is clear in itself and accounts for the others. CHAPTER LXXXII. OF THE CITY AND GREAT HAVEN OF ZAYTON.