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the various disguises of the name was the He places the battle at the outflow of the river Uiguria n principality of Kaochê in Eastern Onon" near Külen Buira (i.e. the well known Turkestan as Mr. Douglas says. Rashidu'd- lake Buyur, which was near the heights of dîn says that after his defeat Wang Khin fled Checher). He further tells us Chinghiz Khan's to a place in the country of the Naimans called army was led by Tôrôlji Taishi of the Uirat Nirgun Ussun." There he was seized by Khori Jelme Noyan of the Uriangkhân and the son Subaju and Tungor Iteng Shal, two frontier com- of Kiluken Baghatur of the Sunid called Tudai manders of Tayang the Naiman ruler. They put Tsarbi, who defeated Ong Khaghan and subdued him to death, and sent his head to their master. the Kerait.” Sankun fled to a place whose name is read The conquest of the Kirais and their ruler Ashik Balgasun by Berezine, and Istu Balgha- was a great step in Chinghiz Khan's career. sun by Erdmann, but the name is evidently It made him a widely notorious person, and we corrupt. It doubtless ought to be read Itzina, as consequently find the campaign referred to by it is given in the Huang-yuan." Thence he other and independent authorities than those hastened on to the frontiers of Jul or Chul on we have quoted, and notably by the Christian the extreme borders of the Mongols,"and thence chroniclers, who were especially interested in the he went to Buri Tibet (i. e. to the country of overthrow of Prester John as they styled Tibet, which is so called by Carpini, Davezac, Wang Khân. I propose to close this instalp. 658). Having engaged in plundering therement of my story by bringing together two or he was attacked by the inhabitants; he again three of these notices, first referring shortly to a fled to the country of Khoten and Kashgar. famous Muhammadan historian. D'Ohsson says to the district of Kuman on the Rashidu'd-din, although in every way the borders of Kashgar and Khoten. Erdmann says most important of the Persian writers who to the borders of Jin and Kashgar and the described the doings of the Mongols, was not district of Gushan.
the only, nor the earliest, Muhammadan author There he was attacked and killed by Kilij who has left us many details about Chinghiz Arslan, the chief of the tribe Kili or Khalaj Khân. He in fact confesses his indebtedness, in a place called Kusaku-char-kusha" who sent especially to Alaiu'd-din Ata Mulk Johis wives and children prisoners to Chinghiz veni, who devoted a special work to the hisKhân, and shortly after himself submitted to tory of the great conqueror, which he entitled that chief." He was probably the Arslan chief the Tarikh Jihan Kushai, or history of the of the Karluks of whom we shall have more world-conqueror. to say further on. The Huang-yuan calls the Alai-ud-din was born in the canton of Juvein place where Wang Khân was captured the river in Khorasan, whence the name of Juveni by which Nikiun-uli, and names the Naiman chiefs who he is generally quoted. He was the son of killed him Kholisu-bachi and Tedusha. It says Bohai-ud-din Muhammad, who occupied an imthat Sankun fled to Sisia, passed the town of portant post in the Treasury of the Mongol Itzina," and reached the country of the Bolin rulers of Persia. He himself became prefect Tufan." He fell upon the people there, and of Baghdad, which included the Government plundered them, but the Tufans' drove him and of Irak Arab and Khuzistan, a post he filled his followers away westwards. He was even- until his death in 1283. His great work was tually killed by Khelinchukhala in the country commenced in 1252, and closed in 1257. It is of Chergeziman.2
divided into two parts, in the former of which Ssanang Setzen, whose narrative of these he describes in detail the later history of events is of hardly any value, dates the defeat of Chinghiz Khan and especially the conquest Ong Khaghan, ae he calls Wang Khân, in 1998. of Transoxiana and Persia. He also details
* D'Ohsson calls it On Usun, which name means the ten rivers in Turkish, op. cit., vol. I, p. 82, note 2.
Sea Erdmann, note 160. 2. Vide infra.
15. e. the Chual of the Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi above mentioned
** Erdmann reads it Gusatu-jau.gameh, D'Oheson Keus- satu-char-kashme.
11 Beresine, vol. II. p. 146; Erdmann, p. 808; D'Ohason,
vol. I, pp. 82 and 83.
* This is a well known town of Tangut, which will occupy us again in a later page.
29. e. the Buri Tibet of other authors. 30 1. e. Kilij Khan. 31 i. e. the Kuraku-char-kusha of Rashid, perhape the country of the Black or Rook Kirghisis is meant. Huang. yuan, p. 176.
* Clearly a mistake for the Keralon. » Op.cit., p. 87.
