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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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his good father set free and restored me my very wroth, and said to the envoys What people whom I had lost: now the son sends impudence is this to ask my daughter to wife?' four champions who release and restore to me Wist he not well that he was my liegeman and my people. I swear by the shielding power serf? Get ye back to him, and tell him that I (or aid) of heaven. I will try and repay this had liefer set my daughter in the fire than give obligation." He then went on to say that her in marriage to him, and that he deserves he was growing old, that his younger brothers death at my hand, rebel and traitor that he is." were unworthy to suoceed him, and that he So he bade the envoys begone at once, and only had one son, Sankun, of whom he never come into his presence again. The envoys spoke disparagingly, saying it was the same on receiving this reply departed straightway, as if he did not exist. "I will consider and made haste to their master, and related all Temujin as the elder brother of Sankun, that Prester John had ordered them to say, so that I shall have two sons when I am at keeping nothing back."98 rest," and he accordingly met Chinghiz Marco Polo, it will be seen, says nothing of Khân at the Black Forest on the river Tula Sankun, and attributes" the proud words" to and adopted him as his son. Hitherto Chinghiz Wang Khan himself. In the Yuan-shi, which had called him father merely ont of respect, says the betrothals were broken off amidst and because of his friendship with Yissuge i. angry words and fierce thrents, Juchi is called Now they made a bond of father and son, and
Jotsin or Chotsin and Wang Khan's daughter declared, "In the struggles with our foes we Chan-urh Pe-tsi, while Chinghiz Khân's daughter will fight side by side. In hunting the wild is called Koh-tsin Pe-tee or Gatsin-betsi and her animals we will unite together. If people try 1 proposed husband To-sze-ho or Toskho." De to make us quarrel we will not listen to them, Mailla's authority tells us that Temujin nor believe them until we have had mutual having asked the hand of Wang Khan's daughter explanations and spoken about matters face to Serpecha for his eldest son Chuchi, and been face." In order to secure their friendship still refused, some time after revenged himself by further, Chinghiz asked for the hand of refusing the hand of his daughter Hoakin to Wang Khân's daughter Chaurbiki for Wang Khan's son Tosaho." his son Juchi, while he offered his own In the Huang-yuan we are told that when daughter Khojin to Sankun's son Tusa khi. these negociations for alternate marriages were Sankun who deemed his people superior to the in progress, Chinghiz Khân was encamped Mongols, and looked upon Chinghiz Khân at the mountain Abuli Kyaekhoger, and Wang as belonging to an inferior horde to himself Khan in the sandy desert of Tsu-belik." Rashidexpressed his feelings thus -"When the maidenu'd-din tells us that the two friends had crossed of our house goes into theirs, she will stand the Ongu by which Rashid means sometimes the behind the door with her face to the north" (i.e. great Chinese wall and sometimes the Inshan in the attitude of & servant or slave) " while if range. I must now introduce an incident notmentheir maiden comes to us she will sit with her tioned in the Yuan-chao-pi-shi, and which is stated face to the south," i. e, in the position of a mis- in the other authorities to have occurred immetress. He therefore objected to the two matches, diately before the attempted betrothals above which were broken off, thereby naturally causing named. Rashidu'd-din tells us that in 1202, the some heartburning to the proud Mongul chief." same year when Chinghiz Khan overwhelmThis notice may be compared with that given ed the Tartars, Buirukh in alliance with by Marco Polo in whose words the story runs Tokhto the chief of the Merkit with the Durban as follows:-"In the year of Christ 1200 Chin- Tartars, Katakins and Saljiut, who were led by gbiz Khân sent an embassy to Prester John Ukhutu Bakhadur together with the Uirat and desired to have his daughter to wife. But chief Khotuga biki formed an alliance, and when Prester John heard that Chinghiz Khân marched against the two friends. The latter demanded his daughter in marriage, he waxed were informed of the approach of the enemy by
Fran-ch'ao-pi-shi, pp. 82 and 88. # Yule's Marco Polo, vol. I, p. 234
- Hyacinthe, p. 23; Douglas, P. 25. "Op. cit., tom. IX, p. 27.
cit., p. 166.
