Monthly Archives: April 2007

NOTE 2.–CHAGATAI, here called Sigatay, was Uncle, not Brother, to the Great Kaan (Kbli). Nor was Kaidu either Chagatai”s son or Kbli”s nephew, as Marco here and elsewhere represents him to be. (See Bk. IV. ch. i.) The term used … Continue reading →

And I am indebted yet again to the generous zeal of Mr. Wylie of Shanghai, for the principal notes and extracts which will, I trust, satisfy others as well as myself that the instruments in the garden of the Observatory … Continue reading →

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NOTE 1.–The cudgel among the Mongols was not confined to thieves and such like. It was the punishment also of military and state offences, and even princes were liable to it without fatal disgrace. ‘If they give any offence,’ says … Continue reading →

NOTE 1.–’The population of Badakhshan Proper is composed of Tajiks, Turks, and Arabs, who are all Sunnis, following the orthodox doctrines of the Mahomedan law, and speak Persian and Turki, whilst the people of the more mountainous tracts are Tajiks … Continue reading →

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NOTE 2.–A Tartar divination by twigs, but different from that here employed, is older than Herodotus, who ascribes it to the Scythians. We hear of one something like the last among the Alans, and (from Tacitus) among the Germans. The … Continue reading →

Two Belgian missionaries, MM. de Vos and Verlinden, who visited the tomb of Chinghiz Khan, say that before the Mahomedan invasion, on a hill a few feet high, there were two courtyards, one in front of the other, surrounded by … Continue reading →

NOTE 6.–’_Jongleours et entregetours de maintes plusieurs manieres de granz experimenz_’ (P.); ‘_de Giuculer et de Tregiteor_’ (G. T.). Ital. _Tragettatore_, a juggler; Romance, _Trasjitar, Tragitar_, to juggle. Thus Chaucer:– kingston computer carts best bike lights for darkness labrador breeder … Continue reading →

worship a Prophet that was born, and they carried with them three manner of offerings, Gold, and Frankincense, and Myrrh; in order to ascertain whether that Prophet were God, or an earthly King, or a Physician They relate that in … Continue reading →