AFTER TWO YEARS TAKES SHIP FOR CHINA.

DISASTROUS PASSAGE TO JAVA; AND THENCE TO CHINA; ARRIVES AT SHAN-TUNG; AND GOES TO NANKING.

CONCLUSION OR L'ENVOI BY ANOTHER WRITER.
Fa-Hsien abode in this country two years; and, in addition (to his acquisitions in Patna), succeeded in getting a copy of the Vinaya-pitaka of the Mahisasakah (school);( 1) the Dirghagama and Samyuktagama( 2) (Sutras); and also the Samyukta-sanchaya-pitaka;( 3)--all being works unknown in the land of Han.

Having obtained these Sanskrit works, he took passage in a large merchantman, on board of which there were more than 200 men, and to which was attached by a rope a smaller vessel, as a provision against damage or injury to the large one from the perils of the navigation.
With a favourable wind, they proceeded eastwards for three days, and then they encountered a great wind.

The vessel sprang a leak and the water came in.