Note 1 — CHAP. III.
Reading edition
: PLINY, b. vi. ch. xxiv.
2: Maha Naama, A.D. 428; Sung-shoo, a "History of the Northern Sung Dynasty," b. xcvii, p. 5.
3: It was probably the knowledge of the overland route that led the Chinese to establish their military colonies in Kashgar, Yarkhand and the countries lying between their own frontier and the north-east boundary of India.—Journ. Asiat. 1. vi. p. 343. An embassy from China to Ceylon, A.D. 607, was entrusted to Chang-Tsuen, "Director of the Military Lands."—Suy-shoo; b. lxxxi. p. 3.