Junnan

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Junnan

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Yunnan.
   • 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^[1], London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 20:

     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.

   • 1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, Atlas Chinensis‎^[2], London: Tho. Johnson, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 392:

     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.