ABSTRACT
The direction and distance indicate the great peninsula Aliaska. Beyond Aliaska the Chinese discovered, at the end of the fifth century, a land which Deguignes, in fact, afterwards sought for on the north-west part of the American Continent. "Land Fusang," Buddhist monk writes, "lies about a thousand Chinese miles in an easterly direction from Fusang, and is inhabited by white people with very hairy bodies". During the dynasty of Leang, in the half of the sixth century, the Chinese heard of a land situated 5000 of their miles to the eastward of the Painted People, who dwelt in the Aleutian Islands, and named it Tahan, or Great China. The people have no weapons, and make no wars; but in the arrangements for the kingdom they have a northern and a southern prison. Five beggar-monks instructed the people in the principles of monastic life, and so changed their manners.
