xvi, note 23.
(6) At his novitiate Fa-Hsien had sought the refuge of the "three Precious Ones" (the three Refuges {.} {.} of last chapter), of which the congregation or body of the monks was one; and here his thoughts turn naturally to the branch of it in China.

His words in his heart were not exactly words of prayer, but very nearly so.
(7) In the text {.} {.}, ta-fung, "the great wind,"=the typhoon.
(8) They had got to the south of the Shan-tung promontory, and the foot of mount Lao, which still rises under the same name on the extreme south of the peninsula, east from Keao Chow, and having the district of Tsieh-mih on the east of it.

All the country there is included in the present Phing-too Chow of the department Lae-chow.

The name Phing-too dates from the Han dynasty, but under the dynasty of the After Ch'e {.} {.}, (A.D.

479-501), it was changed into Ch'ang-kwang.