Note 2 — SER MARCO POLO (continued 2)
Henry Yule translation
Regarding this name and its history, see Pelliot, Journ. Asiatique, 1912, I., p. 582. Qara Khodja was celebrated for its abundance of grapes. (Bretschneider, Mediæval Res., I., p. 65.) J. Dudgeon (The Beverages of the Chinese, p. 27) misreading it Ha-so-hwo, took it for the designation of a sort of wine. Stuart (Chinese Materia Medica, p. 459) mistakes it for a transliteration of “hollands,” or may be “alcohol.” The latter word has never penetrated into China in any form.