Chittagong

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by Caroline Stone

The following is Mills' note on Chittagong:

“Giles, nos. 552; 10,956; 1245; Chittagong, 22° 20' N, 91° 50’ E. It is certain that the ‘Sa-ti-chiang’ of the Mao K’un Map and the ‘Ch’a-ti-chiang’ of the ‘Shun-feng’ sailing directions represented Chittagong; and we provisionally conclude that the ‘Ch’a-ti-chiang’ of Fei Hsin and the ‘Che-ti-chiang’ of Ma Huan should also be identified with Chittagong, but there is a possibility that they denoted Satgaon, on the Hooghly river, 30 miles above modern Calcutta.”

- J. V. G. Mills, trans., ed., Ma Huan, Ying-yai Sheng-lan: The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores [1433], Hakluyt Society Extra Series 42 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1970), "The Country of Pang-ko-la [Bengal], p. 158, n. 8