Monthly Archives: August 2007

NOTE 2.–CHORCHA is the Manchu country, Niuch?of the Chinese. (Supra, note 2, ch. xlvi. Bk. I.) [‘Chorcha is Churchin.–Nayan, as vassal of the Mongol khans, had the commission to keep in obedience the people of Manchuria (subdued in 1233), and … Continue reading →

genuine memory of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom, and might have had an origin analogous to the Sultan”s claim to be ‘Caesar of Rome’; for the real ancestry of the oldest dynasties on the Oxus was to be sought rather among the … Continue reading →

But the exact legend here reported is related (as M. Pauthier has already noticed) by Wilibrand of Oldenburg of a stream under the Castle of Adamodana, belonging to the Hospitallers, near Naversa (the ancient _Anazarbus_), in Cilicia under Taurus. And … Continue reading →

both Christians and Saracens, who are subject to the Great Kaan”s nephew, CAIDOU by name; he is, however, at bitter enmity with the Kaan Samarcan is a great and noble city towards the north-west, inhabited by both Christians and Saracens, … Continue reading →

NOTE 4.–NAYAN was no ‘uncle’ of Kbli”s, but a cousin in a junior generation. For Kbli was the grandson of Chinghiz, and Nayan was the great-great-grandson of Chinghiz”s brother Uchegin, called in the Chinese annals Pilgutai. [Belgutai was Chinghiz”s step-brother. … Continue reading →

[Heyd (_Com. du Levant_, II. p. 109) says the inhabitants of Yezd wove the finest silk of Taberistan.--H. C.] The silk manufactures still continue, and, with other weaving, employ a large part of the population. The _Yazdi_, which Polo mentions, … Continue reading →

soon changed, and he must set forth upon a voyage again, while Philippa is left, with a new light in her eyes, to watch over the atom that wakes and weeps and twists and struggles and mews, and sleeps again, … Continue reading →

Mr. Rockhill (_Rubruck_, 201 note) says: ‘As early as B.C. 118, we find the Chinese using “leather-money” (_p”i pi_). These were pieces of white deer-skin, a foot square, with a coloured border. Each had a value of 40,000 cash. (_Ma … Continue reading →

HOW THE EMPEROR GOES ON A HUNTING EXPEDITION. christmas costumes santa suits for adults search for free web sites where men share pictures of christmas tree with chocolate covered coffee beans from contra costa times real estate facts on diabetes … Continue reading →

times in connection with the political and military events of that period [‘The Mohammedan authors of the Mongol period mention Badakhshan several times in connection with the political and military events of that period. Guchluk, the “gurkhan of Karakhitai,” was … Continue reading →