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LV., p. 268, n. 2. In the _Yuan s.h.i.+_, XX. 7, and other Chinese Texts of the Mongol period, is to be found confirmation of the fact, ”He is slaughtered like a sheep,” i.e. the belly cut open lengthwise.

(Pelliot.)

LVI., p. 269. ”The people there are called MESCRIPT; they are a very wild race, and live by their cattle, the most of which are stags, and these stags, I a.s.sure you, they used to ride upon.”

B. Laufer, in the _Memoirs of the American Anthropological a.s.sociation_, Vol. IV., No. 2, 1917 (_The Reindeer and its Domestication_), p. 107, has the following remarks: ”Certainly this is the reindeer. Yule is inclined to think that Marco embraces under this tribal name in question characteristics belonging to tribes extending far beyond the Mekrit, and which in fact are appropriate to the Tungus; and continues that Ras.h.i.+d-eddin seems to describe the latter under the name of Uriangkut of the Woods, a people dwelling beyond the frontier of Barguchin, and in connection with whom he speaks of their reindeer obscurely, as well as of their tents of birchbark, and their hunting on snowshoes. As W. Radloff [_Die Jakutische Sprache, Mem. Ac. Sc. Pet._, 1908, pp. 54-56] has endeavoured to show, the Wooland Uryangkit, in this form mentioned by Ras.h.i.+d-eddin, should be looked upon as the forefathers of the present Yakut. Ras.h.i.+d-eddin, further, speaks of other Uryangkit, who are genuine Mongols, and live close together in the Territory Barguchin Tuk.u.m, where the clans Khori, Bargut, and Tumat, are settled. This region is east of Lake Baikal, which receives the river Barguchin flowing out of Lake Bargu in an easterly direction. The tribal name Bargut (_-t_ being the termination of the plural) is surely connected with the name of the said river.”

LVII., p. 276.

SINJU.

”Marco Polo's Sinju certainly seems to be the site of Si-ning, but not on the grounds suggested in the various notes. In 1099 the new city of Shen Chou was created by the Sung or 'Manzi' Dynasty on the site of what had been called Ts'ing-t'ang. Owing to this region having for many centuries belonged to independent Hia or Tangut, very little exact information is obtainable from any Chinese history; but I think it almost certain that the great central city of Shen Chou was the modern Si-ning. Moreover, there was a very good reason for the invention of this name, as this _Shen_ was the first syllable of the ancient Shen-shen State of Lob Nor and Koko Nor, which, after its conquest by China in 609, was turned into the Shen-shen prefecture; in fact, the Sui Emperor was himself at Kam Chou or 'Campichu' when this very step was taken.” (E.H. PARKER, _Asiatic Quart. Rev._, Jan., 1904, p. 144.)

LVIII., p. 282. _Alashan_ is not an abbreviation of Alade-Shan and has nothing to do with the name of Eleuth, written in Mongol _ogalat_.

_Nuntuh_ (_nuntuk_) is the mediaeval Mongol form of the actual _nutuk_, an encampment. (PELLIOT.)

LVIII., p. 283, n. 3.

GURUN.

Gurun = Kurun = Chinese K'u lun = Mongol Urga.

LVIII., p. 283, n. 3. The stuff _sa-ha-la_ (= _saghlat_) is to be found often in the Chinese texts of the XIVth and XVth Centuries. (PELLIOT.)

LIX., pp. 284 seq.

KING GEORGE.

King or Prince George of Marco Polo and Monte Corvino belonged to the ongut tribe. He was killed in Mongolia in 1298, leaving an infant child called Shu-ngan (Givanni) baptized by Monte Corvino. George was transcribed Korguz and Gorguz by the Persian historians. See PELLIOT, _T'oung Pao_, 1914, pp. 632 seq. and _Cathay_, III., p. 15 n.

LIX., p. 286.

TENDUC.

Prof. Pelliot (_Journ. As._, Mai-Juin, 1912, pp. 595-6) thinks that it might be _Tien to_, [Chinese], on the river So ling (Selenga).

LIX., p. 291.

CHRISTIANS.

In the Mongol Empire, Christians were known under the name of _tarsa_ and especially under this of _arkagun_, in Chinese _ye-li-k'o-wen; tarsa_, was generally used by the Persian historians. Cf. PELLIOT, _T'oung Pao_, 1914, p. 636.

LIX., p. 295, n. 6. Instead of _Ku-wei_, read _K'u-wai_. (PELLIOT.)

LXI., pp. 302, 310.

”The weather-conjuring proclivities of the Tartars are repeatedly mentioned in Chinese history. The High Carts (early Ouigours) and Jou-jan (masters of the Early Turks) were both given this way, the object being sometimes to destroy their enemies. I drew attention to this in the _Asiatic Quart. Rev._ for April, 1902 ('China and the Avars').” (E.H.

PARKER, _Asiatic Quart. Rev._, Jan., 1904, p. 140.)

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