Abstract
Readers of Father Serruys's two articles on the Ordos salt lakes may be interested in the evidence relating to the episode referred to in his documents, which is provided by the reports, 1917–22, of the Sino-foreign salt inspectorate. The evidence is twofold: direct, relating to the episode itself, and indirect, relating to the context. In preliminary clarification it should be stated that both Chinese and Sino-foreign sources refer to three Ordos salt lakes at this date: Pei-ta-ch'ih, the northern great lake, ‘200 li due north of Hua-mach'ih’; Wo-po-ch'ih, evidently a transliteration; and Kou-ch'ih, the dog or petty lake. These would seem to be equivalent, respectively, to Father Serruys's Great Lake, Lake of the Cairn or obo, and Little Siker Lake.
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