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remains a hare which we have not captured. a third campaign in these parts. They tell us Why not let it go ?" Samuka who blushed at that Chinghiz sent Totolu-an-Sherbi," who, the not having distinguished himself like the other latter says, was the son of Mengelig ljigeh, Mongol chiefs did not like this counsel. Chin- and was at the head of the Mongol, Khitan and ghiz proposed very hard conditions. Utubu was Chinese troops to fight in the south. They to surrender all the territory he held north of marched against Chaghan Balghassun, which the Yellow River, to renounce the title of he adds the Chinese called Jen-din or Jinemperor, and take that of king of Ho-nan, and | zin-fa, which they plundered, and defeated to acknowledge him as his suzerain. These Da-min. They then advanced upon Dun-pin, terms were rejected.Ro The negociations having but on account of the river could not take it; so broken down we read that in the spring of after pillaging the district greatly, they retired, 1216 the Mongols made a second effort to reach and the Kin troops reoccupied it." the southern capital of the Kin; we are told It is not surprising that the ill-fortunes of that Siu-ting the commander of Ping-yang-fu the Kin Tartars should have tempted their gent Pilan-alutai and Tashan-pekia with 15,000 neighbotirs on the south, the masters of the Sung men to defend the passage across the Yellow empire, and they now refused to pay the tribute River, and also the town of Shen-cbau. He which they had been in the habit of paying.** himself with a picked army went to cover the It would seem that Chinghiz Khân had tried to sonthern capital, and sent several other divi- arrange an alliance with the Sung against the sions towards Tung.kuan to oppose the Mongols Kin, but without avail. This fact is noticed in if they should ventare to attack it, but they the Tsian-yan-i-lai-ch'ao-ye-tsza-tszi, and the turned it as on the former occasion and went notice has been abstracted by Palladius. We and encamped between Ju-chau and the moun- there read that in the seventh year of the reign tain of Sang, whence traversing the mountain of Tzia-din (1214), and on the ninth day of the paths which were deemed impracticable they first moon, there arrived three horsemen at Vufell suddenly upon Tung-kuun and captured it vei-fu, a small place on the north bank of the almost without a blow." Siu-ting ordered the river Khuai. They crossed the river, and set governors of Kiang-chat, Hiai-chau, Shi-chan off towards the south. A scout asked them Ki.chau and Mong-chau to combine their forces why they had come. They produced a wallet in case the enemy should suddenly appear. containing a letter and a figured chart written on Shortly after the Mongols having crossed the a silken material, and said "The Dadan Vanriver near San-men marched towards Ping-yang, tzi," Chinghiz, has sent us to proffer lands to but were repulsed with loss by Siu-ting, who the Sung, and to ask for an auxiliary army." On also recaptured the fortress of Tung-kuan." the following day, when the chief of the scouts The Yuan-shi has a different story about this learnt this, he sent several men with an answer campaign. It says that when the Kin emperor to the effect that the district chief was at this refused to listen to the terms offered by Chin. time at the court, and that he dared not receive ghiz he sent the general She-tien-ne, called Shet- them without permission from the Emperor, kian-ne by Hyacinthe, and She-tian-i in the and he ordered them to be sent back, a Huang-yuan, to recommence hostilities, and to curious proof that the exclusiveness, Euroencourage his generals, he gave each of them a pean travellers complain about so much in paizah or official tablet of office, marked with a China, is of very old date. On the following tiger. She-tien-ne, we are told by this autho- day the scout met them on the mountain Miaority, went forth in the eighth month of 1215, Gan, and immediately made them recross the and took Ping-chau, and at the same time the Kin river on a raft. Unable to return northward minister, Kechu," surrendered.”
on account of the interruption of communications The Huang-yuan and Rashidu'd-din mention they lay hid in the lake Bo-lu-kha in the
» De Mailla, vol. IX, pp: 74 and 75; Hyacinthe, Pp. 82 and 83; D'Ohason, vol. I, p. 151. 'Si De Mailla, vol. IX, p. 76. 1 d., p. 77. 33 The Tai-chu of Hyacinthe.
Douglas, p. 80; Hyacinthe, Pp. 75 and 76; Huangyuan, p. 289.
» Called Tulun-Sherbi by Rashidu'd-din. 36 Called Tu-ngin-fu by Rashidu'd-din. 27 Huang-yuan, p. 190; Erdmann, p. 331.
De Mailla, vol. IX, p. 78. 30 i.e., the ruler of the Tartars.
