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to him, accompanied by her sons, Shan-ku, Tieiku and Yong-ngan, by her adopted son, Tatar, and by her grandson, Siukuents. When Chinghiz Khân saw her, he said laughingly, "although the falcons which fly so swiftly have not yet arrived, yet you, a woman, are already here." He then presented her with a bowl of wine (doubtless darasun), and enlarged on his good-will towards her. The princess replied, "Liuko, my husband, lives no longer, and the people over whom you placed him are without a master. Hiues (called Pitu by Gaubil), the eldest of my sons, has been with your army for a long time, and is still in the West. I have brought my second son, Shanku, with me, to remain as a hostage with your majesty, and I beg you to send for Hinese, so that he may succeed his father." "I regard," said Chinghiz, "Hiuesê as one of my most faithful subjects. He followed me into the West, and when my son (Juchi), attacked the town of Hani (?), inhabited by the Muhammadans, Hinese, at the head of a thousand men, distinguished himself more than any of my officers. At Sunsecan (i.e. Samarkand), he was wounded while fighting like a hero, and his great deeds have placed him among my best officers. He is useful to me, and I cannot part with him. Shan-ku, your second son, should succeed his father," "Hiuese," said the princess, "is not my son, but Liuko's son by an earlier marriage. Shanku, who is my son, is younger than he. If you give the latter his father's place will it not be said that regardless of jus- tice I only consulted my maternal feelings. I
beg you earnestly not to do a wrong which will tarnish my reputation, nor prefer the younger son to the elder." Chinghiz praised her wisdom, and he accorded her wish, nominating Yelin Hiuesê as king of Liau-tung. When the princess took leave of Chinghiz he gave her 40 post horses, 9 prisoners whom he had captured in Ho-si, 9 horses, 9 ingots of silver, 9 pieces of silk, and 9 specimens of various kinds of precious stones. He retained Shan-ku, Tatar and Siukuenus at his court, and only sent back Yong-ngan,.her fourth son, with the princess."
When Yeliu-Hinese arrived at Chinghiz Khan's camp, he said to him,"Yeliu-Liuko, your father, put himself under my protection in order to get support against the Kin who ill-ased him, and wished to undo him, and as a gauge of his sincerity he placed you as a hostage in my hands. Presently Yossêpu (?) and other malcontents revolted against him and against your family with the intention of exterminating it. Do you think the germs of disorder are extinct, and that you have no more enemies in your country P I have always treated your father like a younger brother, and I have loved you as a son. Command my troops conjointly with my brother, Belgutei, and live together in close union." When Hiuesê bade him good-by, and desired to leave for his government he detained him for a while, so that he might share in the glory of capturing the capital of Hia.
This reminds us that Chinghiz Khan was then engaged in his famous campaign in Hia or Tangut, the last of his great enterprizes, and to it we must now turn.
ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS OF INDIA
WHICH WERE KNOWN TO EARLY GREEK AUTHORS. BY V. BALL, M.A., F.R.S.; DIRECTOR OF THE SCIENCE AND ART MUSEUM, DUBLIN. In a communication made by me in the year knowledge of the mode of occurrence and 1883 to the Royal Geological Society of distribution of minerals in India, to arrive at Ireland, entitled A Geologist's Contribution to a number of conclusions, the main tendency of the History of India,' I endeavoured to identify which has been to show that many apparently many mineral productions which are mentioned extravagant and fictitious stories by these early by the writers of antiquity. Partly by the writers rest on substantial bases of facts. recorded characteristics of these minerals, While engaged upon that inquiry with and partly by such indications as are given of reference to minerals, I came upon numerous the localities whence they were derived, I was allusions to animals and plants, for some of enabled, by a comparison with our present which, in spite of their apparently mythical ** De Mailla, Vol. IX. pp. 122-123.id. pp. 124-125. 2nd Ser., VOL. II., No. 6, with additions and revisions,
From the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Reprinted in the Indian Antiquary. Vol. XIII. p. 228ff.
