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said "Let it be according to your choice." Chinghiz then said to Munlik, "You have been my comrade from my childhood until now, and many times have you shielded and helped me, particularly when Wang Khân and his son enticed me to go to them, and I was on the way thither. If you had not stopped me then, I should have got into deep water and into a big fire. Remembering this service, I will not allow my descendants even to forget it. From this time forward you shall sit at the corner, and I will reward you and your descendants monthly and yearly."
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He then addressed Boorchu. "During my childhood," he said, "robbers stole eight grey horses. I chased them for three days and until I met you. You then became my companion, rode with me for three days, and helped me to recover the horses. Why did your father Nakhuboyan, a wealthy man with but one son, namely yourself, decide on giving you to me as a comrade, but because the spirit of fidelity was to be traced in you. Afterwards when I summoned you to be my companion, you did not refuse. When the three Merkit tribes drove me to the mountain Burkhan, you did not desert me, but shared my poverty with me. When I was resting in the district of Talannemurgiesi, near the Tartar country, you spread out your felt cloak, stood over me, and did not let the rain fall on me. Thus you stood until dawn, only once changing from one foot to the other. This is an example of your heroic courage. Other instances are too numerous to relate. Besides this, you and Mukhali have made me do that which is right, and have censured me and prevented me doing that which is wrong. Whence I have reached this high position. Now when seated with others your seat shall be above every one. I absolve you from punishment till you have committed nine crimes. Be a temnik and rule over the Western country as far as the Golden Mountains."" To Mukhali
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he said. When we were in the district of Khorkhonajubur under a thick-leaved tree some words of prophecy were said by your father Guunkhua. I now for the same make you a prince. Sit above the rest. Be the temnik of the left hand, and rule the country to the East to the mountains Kharaun. Your descendants shall inherit this dignity." The title Chinghiz Khân gave Mukhali was that of Govang," given as Guiwang or Kiwang by Rashidu'd-din.
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He then turned to Khorchi. "In my youth you spoke prophetic words to me, shared my troubles and were my companion. At that time you said if my prophetic speeches are fulfilled, give me 30 wives. They are now fulfilled. I give you permission to choose 30 beautiful maidens among the conquered people. Moreover, having brought together 3,000 of the tribe Baali," the tribes Adarki and others ruled by Tagai and Ashikh, and thus made up 10,000 men, I make you their temnik. Choose your residence according to your pleasure among the forest people along the river Erdish" and guard that frontier. Let all the people there be under your control and punish all those who resist." To Jurchidai, Chinghiz said, "The greatest service you did me was during the battle with Wang Khan in the district of Khalakhaljielet, although, at the moment when we hesitated Khuildar was the first to say that he wished to fight, yet the success of the affair belongs to you. You broke and repulsed the strongest of the enemy's divisions, the Jirgins and others, penetrated to the Khân's very tent, and wounded Sankun in the cheek with your arrow. If you had not thus wounded Sankun it is impossible to say what would have happened. Again, as we came down the river Khalkha I trusted in you as I would in the shelter of a high mountain. When we arrived at lake Baljuna you were among the first. We conquered the important empire of the Kerait and the tribes Naiman and
31 Palladius says in a note that it is unknown who the people here referred to was. All Chinghiz Khan's brothers received portions in the east of Mongolia. Shigi Khutukhu's lands perhaps lay near Nerchinsk, where such ramparts still abound, or in the Merkit country, in regard to the settlement of which, he says, there is mention in other legends.-Op. cit., note 442.
3. e. at the beginning of a row of seats, doubtless meaning a post of honour.
33 In the Yuan-shi this incident is attributed to Boor. chu and Mukhali. Yuan-chao-pi-shi, note 446. 3 i. e. the Altai.
35 i. e. doubtless a prophecy of Chinghiz Khan's success. 30 Yuan-chao-pi-shi, pp. 115-117.
3 Palladius says this means a ruling prince in Chinese, and was given to him by anticipation. Mukhali was afterwards, as we shall see, appointed Chinghiz Khan's viceroy in China. Rashid says the title means Great Khân. Yuan-chao-pi-shi, note 433; Erdmann, p. 173. 3 i. e. Barin?
39 i. e. a tuman.
40 i. e. the Uriangkai.
i. e. the Irtish.
Yuan-chao-pi-shi, 117.
