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Sino-Iranica - The Search For Mecca

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<strong>Sino</strong>-<strong>Iranica</strong><br />

Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88) in his K'un yii fu $wo fy M M 1£, and<br />

was hence adopted in the pharmacopoeia of the Chinese, for it figures<br />

in the Pen ts x<br />

ao kan mu H i. 1 <strong>The</strong> Chinese Gazetteer of Macao2 mentions<br />

pa 'r-su-ma aromatic EL W 8£ & ^ as a kind of benjoin. In this case<br />

we have a transcription of Portuguese bdlsamo.<br />

1 Ch. 6, p. 19. See, further, Waiters, Essays on the Chinese Language, p. 339.<br />

2 Ao-men ci Uo, Ch. B, p. 41 (cf. Wylie, Notes on Chinese Literature, p. 60).

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