Le Pays de
Hami ou Khamil ... d'apres les auteurs chinois, Bul. de Geog. hist. et
desc., Paris, 1892, pp. 121-195.) The Chinese general Chang Yao was in
1877 at Hami, which had submitted in 1867 to the Athalik Ghazi, and made
it the basis of his operations against the small towns of Chightam and
Pidjam, and Yakub Khan himself stationed at Turfan. The Imperial Chinese
Agent in this region bears the title of K'u lun Pan She Ta Ch'en and
resides at K'urun (Urga); of lesser rank are the agents (Pan She Ta
Ch'en) of Kashgar, Kharashar, Kuche, Aksu, Khotan, and Hami. (See a
description of Hami by Colonel M. S. Bell, Proc. R. G. S. XII. 1890, p.
213.) - H. C.]
NOTE 2. - Expressed almost in the same words is the character attributed by
a Chinese writer to the people of Kuche in the same region. (Chin.
Repos. IX. 126.) In fact, the character seems to be generally applicable
to the people of East Turkestan, but sorely kept down by the rigid Islam
that is now enforced. (See Shaw, passim, and especially the
Mahrambashi's lamentations over the jolly days that were no more, pp. 319,
376.)
NOTE 3. - Pauthier's text has "sont si honni de leur moliers comme vous
avez ouy." Here the Crusca has "sono bozzi delle loro moglie," and
the Lat. Geog. "sunt bezzi de suis uxoribus." The Crusca Vocab.
