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(writer unknown); Tao i tsa chik (about 1100);
(Miscellaneous Descriptions of the Barbarians of the Isles)
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Taken from; Wada Kyntoku; The Tao I Tsa Chih;�. in Ochanomizu University studies in arts and culture 1954,5,27
The text is preserved because quoted at length in the Shih Lin Kuang Chi (Guide through the Forest of Affairs ) encyclopedia first printed in 1325 by Ch'en Yoan-ching. It is a geographical, historical and ethnological record of twenty-one �South Seas� countries including Pi-p�a-lo (Berbera Coasts), K�un-lun-ts�eng-chi (east coast of Africa)