Meanings
- alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of Yunnan.
The yearly Toll-book in this Province of Junnan, makes mention of two and thirty thouſand nine hundred fifty eight Families, and fourteen hundred thirty three thouſand one hundred and ten Fighting Men.
1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 201 more example
Moſt of the Inhabitants in the Province of Junnan, by reaſon of their Neighborhood with the Indjans, lay the dead Corps on Heaps of Wood, and burn it; but thoſe that ſtudy the Chineſe Philoſophy obſerve the Cuſtoms of the other Chineſes, and uſe Coffins.
1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, Atlas Chinensis, London: Tho. Johnson, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 392
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