Indian legends would alone have been my guide, for I found that rumors of a strange land were common among all the riverine tribes.

In such a combination, hunpo may refer to two different concepts, namely, hun and po, or it may indeed function as a binome, referring to one single concept, namely hun, since the Chuci is generally believed to reflect religious beliefs in South China, where, as we have demonstrated, the belief in the single soul hun was popular around the sixth century B.C.E.

The firstmost thing I remember about him was something he told me, and I'll get to that in a minute.

I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal, Armed in vertues, as I walk up and doun, The hed of thre ful solempne and roial, Intellectus, memorye, and resoun;