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188 ISLAND OF HAINAN. 1,46
19) I-lun may be the present Pak-lai on Pak-lai Bay, south of Ch'ang-hua. Kan-bn, in
Cantonese Kom-yan, still bears this name. It is south of Ch'ang-hua, and near Uen-mun Bay on
the S. "VV. coast of the island.
20) Ki-yang is, I take it, the present Ngai-chou on Po-ping Bay on the extreme southern
coast of Hainan.
21) This paragraph is substantially taken from Ling-wai-tai-ta, 1,18.
22) Ling-wai-tai-ta, 2,8* says of the Li: «Wheu a relative dies they sacrifice an ox, but they
do not cry or have a funeral festival, they only eat raw beef. As to the burial, a man goes ahead
of the coffin-bearers throwing eggs on the ground, and wherever one falls without breaking it is
considered a lucky place for the interment)). Conf infra, 213.
23) The idea appears to be that the wild, picturesque scenery of this part of Hainan has
been a source of happy inspiration to the Chinese scholars who have lived in this district. The
characters siu-pa are understood as abbreviated forms of siu-ts'ai (^^ ^J") obachelorsof arts»,
and pa-hung (J^ "g") asenior bachelors)). A literal rendering of this phrase would be athere
are siu-ts'ai and pa-kung, so of the scholars of this district there are those who have been able 15
to establish themselves (as able literary men))).
24) Yin is the third of the Twelve Branches, and i/u the tenth; in other words there were
two market days in every twelve.
25) The town is still called Ling-shui; it is a Hi6n or District town.
26) These Tan or Tan-ka were of the same tribe as the boat-people of Canton. 20
27) Nothing is known to us of this person, not even the period in which he lived.
28) K*iung-ch6u-fu-chi (as cited in T'u-shu-tsi-ch'ong, "VT, 1880,7), mentions a temple
called Chau-ying-miau, 35 U N. W. from Wan-chou. The divinity there worshipped bore the
name of «Captain)) or aPo-chu)). In 1370 he was raised to official rank under the name of Sin-tso-
hai-kiang. It was forbidden to offer pork in sacrifice to it. This temple was popularly known as 25
the Fan-shon-miau or tcTemple of the Foreign god» (^ )jj^ J||). Captain Tu-kang, here
worshipped, was probably a Moslim skipper.
29) The passage referred to in the Tsin-shu is in Ch. 11,23^ Conf. also Sui-shu, Sljia*". On
the star Wu-nti, see G. Schlegel, Ouranographie Chinoise, 203. The derivation of the name of
the Li-mu-shan here given is fanciful. Mayers, Historical Sketch of the Island of Hainan (J. N. 30
C. B. R. A. S., new Series VII), 6, note, states on good authority that the aborigines had a tradi-
tion that the mother of their race dwelt on this mountain; hence the name, which means «Li
mother mountain)).
30) R. Swinhoe, Exploring visit to Hainan (J. N. C. B. R. A. S., new Series VII), 57, esti-
mated the highest peak of the Li-mu-shan range as not exceeding 7,000 feet. Henry, Ijng-Nam, 35
478, placed the height of the Li-mu-shan at about 5,500 feet. He refers to the fleecy veil of clouds
which hung most of the time over the summit. Ling-wai-tai-ta, 1,8—9, from which this paragraph
of our text is substantially taken, says: «In the autumn the sky is clear and the peak is visible,, a
(spot of) azure floating in space, while below are masses of fog)). It then goes on to say that on
the summit of the mountain, cut off from the rest of the world by impassible gorges and guarded 40
by tigers and other wild beasts, live recluses; «can it be, Ch6u K'ii-fei' adds, that they are of the
family of the old men's village of the Astor pool?)) (:^ ^W-^A-^^^M. W^-
Ma Tuan-lin quates all that Chou K'a-fei wrote on Hainan, giving as his authority Fan Shi-hu
(i. e., Fan Ch'6ng-ta, middle of twelfth century). Hervey St. Denis, Ethnographic, II, 400— 401.
Wylie, Notes on Chinese literature, 218 mentions a collection of odes of the Sung dynasty 45
entitled KU-t'an-shi (JSS ^M gs) or aOdes of the Astor pool)).
31) The customs and dress of the Li of the present day do not differ very materially from
what they were in the twelfth century. See R. Swinho e, op. cit., 26—27. He nry, op. cit., 882—883,
410 et seqq., and an article in the North China Daily News (Shanghai), of Sept. 3, 1902 entitled
The Lois or Aborigines of Hainan; also China Review, XIX, 383—394. 50
Ch6u K'u-fei (Ling-wai-tai-ta, 2,ii''), whom our author substantially quotes for the last
part of this paragraph, says in effect that ((there being many good-looking women among the Li
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