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The Travels of Marco Polo

It has already been remarked that Si‐fan, convertible with Man‐tzŭ, is a loose Chinese expression of no ethnological value, meaning nothing more than Western barbarians; but in a more restricted sense it is used to designate a people (or peoples) which inhabits the valley of the Yalung and the upper T’ung, with contiguous valleys and ranges, from about the twenty‐seventh parallel to the borders of Koko‐nor. (see my note in Odoric de Pordenone, p. 248 seqq.)