《元史·列传·卷三十六》
又西至报答国，报答是个大国，地方八千里，父子相传四十二世，精兵数十万。
西戎大国也，地方八千里，父子相传四十二世，胜兵数十万。
Kan then advanced westward to Baodah, a large country with a territory of 8,000 li (Chinese miles). Forty-two generations of fathers and sons had ruled the country, and it had hundreds of thousands of elite troops.