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Sailing the sea half a month (to the west from ShO-p'o?)one comes (Jg)
to the K'un-lun (^ ^) country. To the south (from the port or chief city
of Sh6-p'o?) the sea is reached in three days' journey (0 ^).
Sailing (^ y^) five days (from Sh6-p'o), one comes to a country of the
Ta-shi (Arabs). "Westward one comes to the sea in forty-five days' journey. 5
Northward one comes to the sea in four days' journey (from the chief city?).
Sailing north-west (from Sh8-p'o?), in fifteen days one arrives at the
country of P'o-ni (y^ "^); furthermore {%) you come in ten days to the
kingdom of San-fo-ts'i. You arrive in seven days more (^) in the kingdom
of Ku-lo (-^ ^). Again (^)
seven days and one comes to Ch'ai-li-t'ing 10
(^ M ^) ^^^ reaches (J^) Kiau-chi, (whence) one makes (^) Kuaugchou
(Canton) ^.
There are two kinds of monasteries (^ i. e., religious systems) in the
kingdom (of Sho-p'o); the one is called that of the «Blessed Buddha» (^ -^),
the other that of the usho-sMniy * (1^ ^). 15
There is a hill on which live parrots and it is called «Parrot Hill»
The king wears his hair in a tuft (or knot), on his head is a golden :
beU; he wears a silken robe and leather shoes ^. His throne is a square seat,
and his officers at their daily audience bow three times when withdrawing. 20
"When he goes forth he rides an elephant, or is carried in a chair* (^ ^),
followed by a company of from five hundred to seven hundred armed soldiers. '
When any one of the people sees the king, he squats down until he has
passed by.
Three sons of the king are made Fu-wang (g(| 3E Royal Deputies), 25
Of officials they have Ssi-ma-Me (and) Lo-U-lien (^) J^ -^ ^ -(§
5^), who conjointly manage the affairs of Government as the Tsai-siang (^
i^ Ministers of State) do in China ^ They have no monthly salaries, but at
intervals they are given a liberal supply of native produce.
Inferior to them are three hundred and more civil officials, who divide 30
among themselves the government of the cities, the treasury and the govern-
ment granaries. The commanders of the troops receive an annual salary of
twenty taels of gold, and the soldiers of the army, 30,000 in number, also
receive fixed annual pay in gold in various amounts.
As to the customs of the country, in seeking for a woman in marriage, 35
they do not employ go-betweens, but make presents of gold to the woman's
family in order to marry her.
They do not inflict- corporal punishment and imprisonment on criminals