Note 1 — Chapter LVI
Henry Yule translation
Indeed documents in Klaproth’s
Asia Polyglotta
show that the
Papé
state was also called
Muang-Yong
(pp. 364–365). I observe that the river running to the east of Pu-eul and Ssemao (Puer and Esmok) is called
Papien
-Kiang, the name of which is perhaps a memorial of the Papé.
[The old Laocian kingdom of Xieng-maï [Kiang-mai], called Muong-Yong by the Pa-y, was inhabited by the Pa-pe Si-fu or Bát-bá T’úc-phu; the inhabitants called themselves Thaï-niai or great Thaï. (Devéria, Frontière, p. 100.) Ch. ix. of the Chinese work Sze-i-kwan-kao is devoted to Xieng-maï (Pa-pe), which includes the subdivisions of Laos, Xieng Hung [Kiang Hung] and Muong-Ken. (Devéria, Mél. de Harlez, p. 97.)—H. C.]