Illustrated Gazetteer of the Maritime Kingdoms, Volume 23

Europeans recorded by?
Lin Zexu of Houguan Lin Zexu (1785–1850) was the Imperial Commissioner whose seizure of opium in Canton sparked the First Opium War. He began the translation work that Wei Yuan eventually completed. translated by?
Wei Yuan of Shaoyang, re-compiled

The State of Bashe in West India Also written as Baoshe, Gaoshe, or Baoda; also named Persia; this is the Anxi The Arsacid Empire or Parthia, known to China since the Han Dynasty of the Han dynasty.
The lands of the Dashi A historic Chinese term for the Arab Empire or Caliphate all belong to the western regions of West India.

The State of Bashe, also known as Barqiya A phonetic rendering of Persia, is located to the east of Turkey and is adjacent to it, with the Kurdistan Mountains serving as the boundary. To the east, it borders Hindustan that is, India, with the Bolor Likely the Pamir Mountains or Bolor Tagh Mountains as the boundary. To the north, it borders Russia and Tartary Tartary refers here to the Western Kazakhs and the Western Buruts A historical name for the Kyrgyz people.