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messengers with some offerings of gold and services to some foreign princes, he gave him other things. Yunggur and Khasar took what the name of Chutsai or Thsu-Thsai, and the was offered them but Khutakku refused. They surname of Tsin-king, thus making a double took the Kin treasures- with them, and also allusion to a passage in the.chronicle of TsoKhada.' Chinghiz asked Khutakhu, “Did khieou-ming, which mentioned a fact of the same Khada give thee some things." He replied, “He kind. Chutsai lost his father at the age of three offered them, but I did not venture to accept years, but under his mother Yan-shi, who took them." “Why not?" said Chinghiz. He replied charge of his education, he surpassed older child. that he had said to Khada, "Before the surrender ren in his knowledge of various kinds of books, of the city all its treasures belonged to the Altan especially those dealing with astronomy, geogra. Khân. But now it has surrendered, it all be- phy, the calendar and arithmetic, studies which longs to my king. How can you secretly take the led him to the conclusion that the planetary property of my king, and appropriate it to motions were more accurately known in the west private uses P" Chinghiz greatly praised him for than in China, and he constructed a set of tables this act, and severely reprimanded Yunggur and under the name Mathapa, made on the system Arkhai Khasar. It is singularly curious how of those of the Mussalmans. In 1213 he obRashidu'd-din and the author of the Huang- tained his first public employment, which he yuan agree almost verbatim in this narrative, | quitted to take charge of the government of which is not mentioned by other Chinese
Yen-king.' De Mailla says he was of a gigantic authors. In regard to the results of the stature 8 feet high (!!!) with a majestic bearing, capture of Chungtu, Minhaj-i-siraj says the had a venerable beard, and an imposing voice. Altan Khan's son and his vizier both fell into On his being presented to Chinghiz, the latter the hands of Chinghiz, and that he ordered an was struck by his appearance, and said to account to be taken from the records of the him - The Kin Tartars have been the enemies quantity of gold and silver which ought to be of the Khitans, from whom they have taken in the treasury, and insisted upon every bar their empire, I have come to revenge your being forthcoming. The same author reports family." Chutsai replied :-"My father and Bahau'd-din as stating that he actually saw the grandfather have been faithful subjects of the son of the Altan Khan and the vizier brought Kin, how can I condemn their conduct and into the presence of Chinghiz. In regard to venture to take vengeance upon them for what the son I can find no confirmation of the they have done to my family ?" Chinghiz was statement anywhere except in the Yuan-ch'ao. pleased with this reply and determined to keep pi-shi, where we certainly read that the ruler Chutsai by him, and to employ him in his of the Kins having arrived at Bian-lian, service. He insisted that before each enterprise submitted himself humbly to Chinghiz, and he undertook, Chutsai should predict for him Chinghiz received his son Tengeri, and 100 according to the rules of his science whether men into his service." By the vizier is meant the event would prove favourable or the reverse, & famous person, who became an important and also confided to him the duty of divining factor in developing the Mongol polity. His by means of burnt shoulder-blades of sheep.15 name was Yeliu-Chutsai. He was & member! A few days after his reception of Yeliu Chutsai, of the Khitan Imperial house, and descended Chinghiz Khan went in person to Yen-king. in the eighth generation from Thu-yo, a prince All the troops there were under arms to receive of that house. His father had been vice-chan- him, Mingan, otherwise called Chapar, being at cellor of the Kin empire, and he himself was their head. Addressing the grandees he told born in the district of Yan in the year 1190 them he owed the capture of the city to Chapar. when his father was 60 years old. As the After a short stay he set out again for Tartary latter, from certain prognostications, judged that and went to pass the summer heats of 1215 at the boy would some tíme render important Leang-king, a town in the district of Hoan-chau, Here called Kheda by Erdmann.
Op. cit. p. 142. • Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi, p. 142: Huang-yuan, pp. 188 and 15 Abel Rémuaat, Nowveanu Mélanges Asiatiques, vol 189 ; Erdmann, pp. 329 and 350.
II, pp. 62 and 63.
11. e. divination. Op. cit. pp. 968 and 963.
1 De Mailla, vol. IX, p. 73; Hyacinthe, p. 106; O pp. 965 and 966.
use. Pien-liang. D'Ohsson, vol. I, pp. 148 and 14e.
