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Nidun and Sam Suji, and then by the exclusion view of Schmidt, and as a proof of the correct. of the names we are now discussing immediately ness of the fable as given by Rashidu'd-din, that before Dobo Mergen. This increases our faith the immediate predecessor of Sekin and Topo greatly in the accuracy of Rashid, who was a Khân as ruler of the Turks was Kolo, otherwise singularly critical historian. He had the Altan called Meke Khân, who assuredly answers to Defter or Golden Register before him and the Khali Kharchu of the above lists. This was besides assisted, as he tells us, by Pulad completes the proof that the earlier part of the Ching-sang, a Mongol prince well versed in the genealogy of the Mongol Khâns, as preserved traditions of his house. He is not likely to have in its primitive form, has been adopted from excluded these names, especially the later ones the Turks. Here, however, the adoption is more with their peculiar colouring, the first of the or less legitimate, for, as we shall show presently, line after Bartechino, whose wives are mentioned, there is every reason to believe that the Mongol if they had occurred in the documents before Imperial house was in fact descended from the him, while their artificial and evidently made- old Turkish Khâng. up character also points to some ingenious We will now complete the Saga of Dobo Merpedigree-maker. I have no doubt that originally gen. The Yuan.ch'ao-pi-shi tells us that Doa the list at this point stood very much as Rashid Sokhor, while he was one day on the Mountain u'd-din gives it, and we shall presently mention Burkhan, saw a number of people nomadizing a fact which makes this almost certain. Ac- along the river Tunggeli, the Tuguli of Rashid cording to the Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi Doa Sokhor had u'd-din (this Wolff identifies with the river still four sons, who all lived together. On their called Tongglu, which springs on the western father's death they behaved badly, separated from side of the Burkhan Mountains, and falls into Dobo Mergen, and formed the family Durban the Kara Gol, as bat as I shall shew further on it (i. e. the four). Ssanang Setzen boldly tells us is probable that the Ingoda is really meant). their names were Donoi, Dokshin, Emnek and Among the rest he noticed a black libitka or Erke, and that they were the ancestors of the tent on a waggon, on the driver's seat of which four Uirad tribes Ogheled, Baghatud, Khoit and was a pretty girl, and he said I must secure her Kergud, who in his day were known as "the for my brother. This was the maiden Alan Four" in contrast with the Mongols, who were Goa, whom Dobo Mergen married, and by known as "the Forty." Rashidu'd-din, as we have whom he had two sons, Belgetei and Begontei, seen, derives the Durbans from four sons of Ti. called Belgayat and Buganut by Rashidu'dmaj. As I shall shew further on the Durbans,
din." who were contemporary with Chinghiz, were Dobo died, according to Abu'l-ghazi, when he probably the four tribes of Turtars and not the was 30, one of his sons being seven, and the four Uirads. Dobo Mergen married Alun Goa. other six years old. It was from Alun Goa that the Mongol Khâns | It was after his death that Alun Goa gave traced their descent, not from him. He and his birth to three sons, whose father was a spirit, one ancestors have nothing whatever to do, in fact, of whom was the ancestor of Chinghiz Khan. with them, beyond his having in the legend So that, as we have said, Dobo and his ancestors married their progenietrix. Who then were these have nothing to do directly with the lineage of legendary chiefs? This was very ingeniously the great conqueror, and it is remarkable that explained by Schmidt. Dobo is in fact no other in the chapter of the Yuan-shi or Official than Topo Khân, the famous ruler of the Turks Annals' of the Mongol dynasty, which has been who died in 581. Doa Sokhor is the equivalent examined for me by my friend Mr. Douglas, of Sekin, Topo's brother, who was also called the dynasty is not traced beyond Alun Goa, Moko Khân, and the division of the tribes and the earlier names are left out. M. D'Ohsson, among the sons of Doa Sokhor answers to the in his well known history of the Mongols, has division of the Turks into four divisions on the also excluded them, and has similarly commenced death of Topo Khân (Ssanang Setzen, p. 374). his story with the same ancestress. I may add as a remarkable confirmation of this
(To be continued.)
** Wolff, Gesch der Mong., p. 14, note. 39 Erdmann, op cit. p. 585.
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