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Mr. Rockhill (_Rubruck_, p. 245, note) writes: ‘Rashideddin states that
when the Urianghit wanted to bring a storm to an end, they said injuries
to the sky, the lightning and thunder. I have seen this done myself by
Mongol storm-dispellers. (See _Diary_, 201, 203.) “The other Mongol
people,” he adds, “do the contrary. When the storm rumbles, they remain
shut […]

In his _Religious System of China_, II


The system of controlling garrisons, quartered at a few miles from the


NOTE 2


In the abstract of Major Smith”s Itinerary as we have given it, we do not


‘Fatto ?”l porto a sembranza d” una luna,’ etc


NOTE 2


Of such as this physician the apostle said: ‘Of a truth I perceive that


NOTE 1


AHMAD was a native of Fenáket (afterwards Sháh-Rúkhia), near the Jaxartes,