Notices of Fu Sang And Other Countries Lying East of China in the Pacific Ocea
Notices of Fu Sang And Other Countries Lying East of China in the Pacific Ocea
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510-515) w r ith that of Dutch navigators in 1643. Both describe the extra ordinary appearance of the natives, and speak of the abundance of a peculiar mineral resembling quicksilver" page 129. Mr. Leland has been misled in regard to this agreement by not knowing that these supposed historians are only the names of two books, viz : Records of the Wei Dynasty (A. D. 386 to 543), and the same Antiquarian Researches from which I have trans lated these six sections. He also assumes that Hwui-shin a...nd his predecessors went by sea, adding that this was " no impos sible thing at a time when in China both astronomy and navi gation were sciences in a high sense of the word. " SECT. Xxi. CHU-JU KWOH (jffe f|| g), OR LAND OF PYGMIES.
In the kingdom of Chii-jii the men are four feet high. Still far ther south of it come the Black Teeth Kingdom, and the Naked Peoples' Land, distant from Japan over four thousand li. It re- 22 Ma Twan-Lin's quires a year's sailing for a vessel to get to them. About ten thousand li to the southwest live islanders whose bodies are black and eyes white; they are naked and hideous; their flesh is deli cate.
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510-515) w r ith that of Dutch navigators in 1643. Both describe the extra ordinary appearance of the natives, and speak of the abundance of a peculiar mineral resembling quicksilver" page 129. Mr. Leland has been misled in regard to this agreement by not knowing that these supposed historians are only the names of two books, viz : Records of the Wei Dynasty (A. D. 386 to 543), and the same Antiquarian Researches from which I have trans lated these six sections. He also assumes that Hwui-shin a...nd his predecessors went by sea, adding that this was " no impos sible thing at a time when in China both astronomy and navi gation were sciences in a high sense of the word. " SECT. Xxi. CHU-JU KWOH (jffe f|| g), OR LAND OF PYGMIES.
In the kingdom of Chii-jii the men are four feet high. Still far ther south of it come the Black Teeth Kingdom, and the Naked Peoples' Land, distant from Japan over four thousand li. It re- 22 Ma Twan-Lin's quires a year's sailing for a vessel to get to them. About ten thousand li to the southwest live islanders whose bodies are black and eyes white; they are naked and hideous; their flesh is deli cate.
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