Definition of "Patung"

We are due at Patung to-morrow, which township is the last in the Province of Hupeh, before crossing over into Szechwan. We will pay off our junks at Patung and will travel in Chairs overland into the North Eastern section of Szechwan which is the westernmost province of China.

1941, Emil S. Fischer, Travels in China 1894-1940‎, volume I, Tientsin: Tientsin Press, page 8

Ho Lung began to move in western Hupeh. Leaving his old haunts in the districts of Enshih and Haofeng in early April, he marched north, capturing and looting in rapid succession Patung, Tzukuei, Hsingshan, Yuan-an, Tangyang, and Kingmen.

1968, O. Edmund Clubb, Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932‎, Columbia University Press, page 35

In 1968 fossils of Gigantopithecus which lived over a million years ago were found in Hupeh province. Some of these were found in a heap of “dragon bones” of a purchasing station for traditional medicine in Patung county of Hupeh province.

1973 November, Chen Chang, “Fossils Sent from Across the Land”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXII, number 11, Peking, page 44, columns 1, 2