II. 133, 143, 279; D'Ohsson, II. 264; Ilchan, I. 150, 152;
Cathay, 264; Acad. VII. 359; Wylie in J. As. V. xix. 406. Suppt.
to D'Herbelot, 142.)
[3] The word is not in Zenker or Pavet de Courteille.
[4] Mr. Shaw writes Toonganee. The first mention of this name that I
know of is in Izzat Ullah's Journal. (Vide J. R. A. S. VII. 310.)
The people are there said to have got the name from having first
settled in Tungan. Tung-gan is in the same page the name given to
the strong city of T'ung Kwan on the Hwang-ho. (See Bk. II. ch. xli.
note 1.) A variety of etymologies have been given, but Vambery's seems
the most probable.
[5] Probably no man could now say what this means. But the following note
from Mr. Ney Elias is very interesting in its suggestion of analogy:
"In my report to the Geographical Society I have noticed the peculiar
Western appearance of Kwei-hwa-ch'eng, and the little gardens of
creepers and flowers in pots which are displayed round the porches in
the court-yards of the better class of houses, and which I have seen
in no other part of China. My attention was especially drawn to these
by your quotation from Rashiduddin."
[6] A translation of Heins' was kindly lent me by the author of this
article, the lamented Mr. J. W. S. Wyllie.
