[Besides the two papers I have already mentioned, the late Mr. Phillips has published, since the last edition of Marco Polo, in the _T’oung-Pao_, VI. and VII.: _Two Mediæval Fuh-kien Trading Ports: Chüan-chow and Chang-chow_. He has certainly given many proofs of the importance of Chang-chau at the time of the Mongol Dynasty, and one might well hesitate (I know it was also the feeling of Sir Henry Yule at the end of his life) between this city and T’swan-chau, but the weak point of his controversy is his theory about Fu-chau. However, Mr. George Phillips, who died in 1896, gathered much valuable material, of which we have made use; it is only fair to pay this tribute to the memory of this learned consul.—H. C.] Martini (_circa_ 1650) describes T’swan-chau as delightfully situated on a promontory between two branches of the estuary which forms the harbour, and these so deep that the largest ships could come up to the walls on either side. A great suburb, Loyang, lay beyond the northern water, connected with the city by the most celebrated bridge in China. Collinson’s Chart in some points below the town gives only 1¼ fathom for the present depth, but Dr. Douglas tells me he has even now occasionally seen large junks come close to the city. Chinchew, though now occasionally visited by missionaries and others, is not a Treaty port, and we have not a great deal of information about its modern state. It is the head-quarters of the _T’i-tuh_, or general commanding the troops in Fo-kien. The walls have a circuit of 7 or 8 miles, but embracing much vacant ground. The chief exports now are tea and sugar, which are largely grown in the vicinity, tobacco, china-ware, nankeens, etc. There are still to be seen (as I learn from Mr. Phillips) the ruins of a fine mosque, said to have been founded by the Arab traders who resorted thither. The English Presbyterian Church Mission has had a chapel in the city for about ten years. Zayton, we have seen from Ibn Batuta’s report, was famed for rich satins called _Zaitúníah_. I have suggested in another work (_Cathay_, p. 486) that this may be the origin of our word _Satin_, through the _Zettani_ of mediæval Italian (or _Aceytuni_ of mediæval Spanish). And I am more strongly disposed to support this, seeing that Francisque-Michel, in considering the origin of _Satin_, hesitates between _Satalin_ from Satalia in Asia Minor and _Soudanin_ from the Soudan or Sultan; neither half so probable as _Zaituni_. I may add that in a French list of charges of 1352 we find the intermediate form _Zatony_. _Satin_ in the modern form occurs in Chaucer:— “In Surrie whilom dwelt a compagnie Of chapmen rich, and therto sad and trewe, That widë where senten their spicerie, Clothes of gold, and _satins_ riche of hewe.” —_Man of Lawe’s Tale_, st. 6.