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[[underlined]] APPENDIX II. [[/underlined]]
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with the Tibetans. By the Bautisos, Ptolemy seems to mean the upper reaches of the Huang Ho, or Yellow River, which rises in Tibet.
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On the Chou clan name, see note 34 (page 57 of the text).
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state may indeed have owed its founding to the same ethnic movement that led, toward the close of the 2nd millennium B.C., to the establishment of the Chou Dynasty itself in northern China. Some centuries later, in fact, Pa is mentioned, along with three other Yangtze River states, as having formed the southern bulwark ([[underlined]] wu [[/underlined]] 吾) of the Chou kingdom when the latter was first founded.
There are, in this^[[|]]connection, other hints also that the Chous themselves may originally have been of Tibeto-Burman stock. Thus we first hear of them as occupying a region (the Shensi-Kansu borderland) which was long afterward part of the kingdom of Tangut; and the latter had a language, the Hsi Hsia 西夏, almost certainly of the Tibeto-Burman family and apparently most closely related to Lolo and its congeners.
Also, there is the close intimacy between the Chous and the Ch'iangs (likewise dwelling in what was later Tangut and generally believed to have been of Tibeto-Burman stock), who gave rulers to several of the feudal states formed as a result of the Chou conquest of ancient China proper [[strikethrough]] . [[/strikethrough]] [[superscript]] (15) [[/superscript]] (regarding the Ch'iangs, see pp. 419 [[underlined]] sq. [[/underlined]] of the text).

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[[underlined]] Tso chuan [[/underlined]], X, ix, 2 (referring to the year 532 B.C.). Among the three other states named is Pu 濮, one of the eight already mentioned (see [[underlined]] supra [[/underlined]], page 4) as having aided the Chous in their conquest of the Shangs.
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In [[underlined]] Mencius [[/underlined]], IV, ii, 1, (2), it is stated specifically that Chou Wên Wang was "a man of the Hsi [[strikethough]] Y [[/strikethrough]] I" 西夷: and Chinese scholars with whom I have discussed the point have assured me that they regarded the latter ethnic term as synonymous with "Ch'iang".
See further on this possible Tibeto-Burman connection of the Chous, note 23 (page 9 of this Appendix).
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But to return to Pa---after a checkered existence of several hundred