XL., p. 205.
Prof. Pelliot accepts as a Mongol plural Tangut, but remarks that it is
very ancient, as Tangut is already to be found in the Orkhon
inscriptions. At the time of Chingiz, Tangut was a singular in Mongol,
and Tangu is nowhere to be found.
XL., p. 206.
The Tangutans are descendants of the Tang-tu-chueh; it must be understood
that they are descendants of T'u Kiueh of the T'ang Period. (PELLIOT.)
Lines 7 and 8 from the foot of the page: instead of T'ung hoang, read Tun
hoang; Kiu-kaan, read Tsiu tsuean.
XL., p. 207, note 2. The "peculiar language" is si-hia (PELLIOT).
XLI., pp. 210, 212, n. 3.
THE PROVINCE OF CAMUL.
See on the discreditable custom of the people of Qamul, a long note in the
second edition of Cathay, I., pp. 249-250.
XLI., p. 211.
Prof. Parker remarks (Asiatic Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904, p. 142) that:
"The Chinese (Manchu) agent at Urga has not (nor, I believe, ever had) any
control over the Little Bucharia Cities. Moreover, since the reconquest of
Little Bucharia in 1877-1878, the whole of those cities have been placed
under the Governor of the New Territory (Kan Suh Sin-kiang Sun-fu), whose
capital is at Urumtsi. The native Mohammedan Princes of Hami have still
left to them a certain amount of home rule, and so lately as 1902 a decree
appointing the rotation of their visits to Peking was issued. The present
Prince's name is Shamu Hust, or Hussot."
XLII., p. 215.
THE PROVINCE OF CHINGINTALAS.
Prof. E.H. PARKER writes in the Journ. of the North China Branch of the
Royal As. Soc., XXXVII., 1906, p. 195: "On p. 215 of Yule's Vol. I. some
notes of Palladius' are given touching Chingkintalas, but it is not stated
that Palladius supposed the word Ch'ih kin to date after the Mongols,
that is, that Palladius felt uncertain about his identification. But
Palladius is mistaken in feeling thus uncertain: in 1315 and 1326 the
Mongol History twice mentions the garrison starts at Ch'ih kin, and in
such a way that the place must be where Marco Polo puts it, i.e. west of
Kia-yueh Kwan."
OF THE PROVINCE OF SUKCHUR.
XLIII., p. 217. "Over all the mountains of this province rhubarb is found
in great abundance, and thither merchants come to buy it, and carry it
thence all over the world. Travellers, however, dare not visit those
mountains with any cattle but those of the country, for a certain plant
grows there which is so poisonous that cattle which eat it loose their
hoofs. The cattle of the country know it and eschew it."
During his crossing of the Nan Shan, Sir Aurel Stein had the same
experience, five of his ponies being "benumbed and refusing to touch grass
or fodder." The traveller notes that, Ruins of Desert Cathay, II., p.
303:
