Monthly Archives: September 2006

HOW THE KAAN REWARDED THE VALOUR OF HIS CAPTAINS.

NOTE 7.–SINDACHU (Sindacui, Suidatui, etc., of the MSS.) is SIUEN-HWA-FU, called under the Kin Dynasty _Siuen-te-chau_, more than once besieged and taken by Chinghiz. It is said to have been a summer residence of the later Mongol Emperors, and fine … Continue reading →

Yuen, agree in stating that the capital had eleven gates [‘The _Yuen shi_ as well as the _Ch”ue keng lu_, and other works of the Yuen, agree in stating that the capital had eleven gates. They are enumerated in the … Continue reading →

Mr. Shaw”s informant, Rozi of Khotan, who had lived twelve years at Charchand, described the latter as a small town with a district extending on both sides of a stream which flows to Lob, _and which affords Jade_. The people … Continue reading →

‘According to the Chinese Annals (_T”ung kien kang mu_), quoted by Dr. E. Bretschneider (_Med. Res._ I. p. 157), Chinghiz died near the _Liu p”an shan_ in 1227, after having subdued the Tangut empire. On modern Chinese maps _Liu p”an … Continue reading →

[Illustration: Dressing up a tent.]

meaning The word Bakhshi has, however, wandered much further from its original meaning. From its association with persons who could read and write, and who therefore occasionally acted as clerks, it came in Persia to mean a clerk or secretary. … Continue reading →

Salamander skin, like a girdle for the loins, which had been brought thither by Cardinal Peter of Capua Gervase of Tilbury writes: ‘I saw, when lately at Rome, a broad strap of Salamander skin, like a girdle for the loins, … Continue reading →