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Su Tung-po, 178, 186, n.'io.
Sugar, imported by Persians to China, 16;
cane, grown in Chan-ch'Ong, 48; imported into
Chan-ch'ong, 49; imported into CliOn-la, 53; imported
into Saa-fo-ts'i, 61; imported to Tan-maling,
67; imported to Fo-lo-an, 69; grows in Sint'o,
70; cane, grown in Sho-p'o, 77, 78; great
height of cane in Su-ki-tan, 83; liquor made from,
in Su-ki-tan, 83, 84; cane, grown in T'ien-chu,
111; made in T'ien-chu, 111; early use of, 113;
its manufacture in China, 113.
Sukatana, a Javanese colony in Borneo, 85.
Sulphur, a product of Sho-p'o, 78.
Sui Yang-ti, the Emperor, sends mission to
Siam, 8.
Sultan, title assumed by Mahmud of Ghazni,
108; the Sultan in text possibly Saladin, 108.
Sumatra, Greek knowledge of 2; not known
to Hiian-tsang, 8; sections of, referred to by Kia
Tan, 11—12; its trade with China at end tenth
century, 19; — see also San-fo-ts'i.
Sun, the setting of the, in Ch'a-pi-sha, 153.
Sun-eh'uan, the Emperor, sends mission to
Indo-China, 6.
Sunda, W. Java, a dependency of San-fo-ts'i,
62, 66; conquered by Javanese, 71; pepper of,
the best, 222; — see Sin-t'o and Sun-t'a.
Sung Euan-cM, 178, 186, n. lo.
Sung K'i, Minister of Emperor T'ai-tsung, 172.
Surnames, of kings of Kiau-chi, 45; P'u (Abu)
a common, in San-fo-ts'i, 60, 64; none in Sho-p'o,
77; in Hai-nan, 182, 184.
Swine, none in Ch^nrch'ong, 50; abundant in
Liu-k'iu, 163. >
Sword, blades, damascened, exported from
China to Aden, 4; blades imported to San-fo-ts'i,
61; blades, made in Sho-p'o, 77; iron, made on
pirate islands near Sho-p'o, 84; people of Nanp'i
dextrous with, 88; fine kind of, made in P'ong-
k'i6-lo, 97.
Syria, when first heard of by Chinese, 4; the
Chan and Fu-lin of the Chinese, 108-109.
Ta-fu (in Japanese Datbu), title of Japanese
envoys to China, 170, 173, n. 6. ^
Ta-hia, trade relations with Ssi-ch'uan, 6.
Ta-j6n, court grandees in P'o-ni styled, 156.
Ta-kang, a dependency of Sho-p'o, 83; sandalwood
from, 208.
- Ta-ni ho (the Patani river), 65.
' Ta-pan, a part of Java, east of Su-ki-tan, it
was also called Jung-ya;-lu, 82, 84; pepper of,
inferior to that of Sin-t'o, 70; situated on a bay,
84; its products, 84; pepper of, 222.
Ta-shi, the, — see Arabs.
T'a-tong, a product of T'ien-chu, possibly a
tissue or carpet, 111, 113.
Ta-ts'in, JSrst Westerners to come to Tongking
by sea, 5; the merchant Ts'in-lun of, visits
China, 5; vagueness of knowledge of Chinese
concerning, in fifth century, 7; is the 4