storians, for whichreason I would give it the preference over Pauthiers Syriac Alopeno. But Father Havret (SteleChrStienne, Leide, 1897, p. 26) objects to Dr. Hirth that the Chinese character lo, to which he givesthe sound ru, is not to be found as a Sanskrit phonetic element in Chinese characters,… … Chap. XLI. CITY OF SI-NGAN FU 29 Whatever may have been the origin of the name Kenjanfu, Baron V. Richthofenwas, on the spot, made aware of its conservation in the exact form of the RamusianPolo. The Roman Catholic missionaries there emphatically denied that Marcocould ever have been at Si-ngan fu,…
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