From other circumstances in the text, the modern Kua-hing may have once been Quinsay.

E. Supposing Kua-hing to have been Quan-sai, no city appears in the direction indicated in the text for the situation of Gampu.

But if we might venture to suppose north-east an error for south, the city of Hanfcheou is nearly at the distance mentioned by Marco, and stands at the bottom of a deep bay of the ocean, in a very convenient situation for trade, communicating with Kua-hing by the great canalE. Multiplying this number of families by five, would give a population of eight millions of individuals of every age and sex.

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When they reached the river Lu, Li Chia and Shih-niang abandoned the land way and hired a cabin in a large junk which was going to Kua-chow.

Some days later they reached Kua-chow, where the big junk stopped.

He was making a journey, and had cast anchor for the night at Kua-chow.

We must now tell how Liu, having left the capital to return to his own village, also halted at Kua-chow.