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by five people and led to a fence and fed on be affected with sores, while the females would the flesh of the wild Tibetan Yak."
be deserted by their husbands. The YuanThe details of the campaign are so varionsly shi-lei-pien further says Chinghiz captured all told that it is not easy to follow them. The the fortresses, which were very numerous, beYuan-ch'ao-pi-shi says that Chinghiz on leaving tween Etzina, Ning hia," Kiayukoan and the snowy mountains passed through the town Kan-chau. of Urakhai.
Chinghiz now seems to have gone to pass the In February 1226 according to the Yuan- summer heats in the mountains of Khun-chu shi-lei-pion he captured Etzina, described by and then captured the towns of Su-chau and Marco Polo as situated a 12 days' ride from Kan-chan, situated respectively on the two rivers Kan-chau, towards the north on the verge of named above, which combine together to form the desert. De Guignes and Pauthier say the Etzina. The siege of Kan-chau was, Etzina is found in a map of Hia, of the according to the Kang-mu, marked by a curious Mongol period, and the latter adds that the incident. We are told it was governed by Kiatext of the map names it as one of the seven yêkielia, the father of the boy Chakhan" who lus or circuits of Kan-suh." Klaproth says the had been adopted by Chinghiz Khan as I river Thao-leu-kho, after joining the Khe-shni, described in an earlier chapter. Chakhan was which comes from the south-east from Kan-chau, ordered to communicate with his relatives. He takes the name Etzina and falls into the accordingly wrote a note to his younger brother, lakes Sabo and Sogo, the latter of which was saying he wanted to speak to him, which he in the Ming period still called I-dsi-nay-khai." fastened to an arrow and fired into the town. He, with great probability, puts the town of The boy was only 12 years. He appeared on the Etzina on this river. The Yuan-shi seems ramparts, but they would not let him leave to refer to this town ander the name Khe-shui. the place. Chakhan then sent & confidential chin," and Colonel Yule independently has person to communicate with his father. The suggested that a town called Hoa-triang, latter it seems was agreeable to surrender the placed on the river Etzina in D'Anville's map, place, when Acha, who was second in command, is to be identified with Etzina. It is possibly fell upon him at the head of 36 men, and the town called Tarmegai in the Altan killed him with his son, and also the envoy. Topchi and Seanang Setzen. During its siege He then prepared for a vigorous defence, they relate that an old woman who was but all in vain. The place was taken by assault descended from a monster, and who was called and a general butehery was only avoided by Khara Khang, used to mount the walls of the pleading of Chakhan. The only people which there was a triple circle about the place, executed were Achu and his 36 accomplices." and pronounce horrible curses and exorcisms | Chinghiz now captured Si-liang-fu Cholo and over the besiegers, by which disease was Kholo in Kan-suh. The first of these towns, scattered among them, and many men and says Gaubil, was at that time a very big place. cattle perished. Thereapon Subutai Baghatur It is now a fortress and known as Yong implored Chinghiz that he should release his chang-wei, in lat. 38° 10' long. 14' 10" W. of brother Khazar, who had been putin confinement Peking." It is possibly the Erguiul of Marco as I have described, lend him his dun-coloured Polo. Advancing again across the Shato or horse, Jigürtu Khula, and order him to go and Stony Desert he arrived at Ki-ya-tu, or the Nine shoot the old witch. Khazar soon after shot her Fords over the Yellow River, and captured the in the knee cap. She fell on her side, and as she town of Ing-li-sien, called Yingle by Douglas.co was dying pronounced a curse upon Khazar's The Yuan-shi says he traversed the Shato, descendants, declaring that the males would went by way of Tsi-du and the river, and
» Altan Topchi, pp. 141-142; 8sanang Setren, pp. 99-101. » Yule's Marco Polo, vol. I. p. 226.
i.c. Lake of Idsinai. - Klaproth, Beleuchtung, etc., p. 65, note. - Hyacinthe, p. 188.
Altan Topchi, pp.142 and 149; Seanang Setsen, p. 101. !
* 1e. The capital of Hia. * 1.e. The western part of the great wall. " Gaubil, p. 49. " Called Saha by DeMaille. " De Mailla, Vol. IX. p. 117; Douglas, p. 100. " Op. cit. p. 40 note. D'Oheson, Vol. I. p. 371. " De Mailla, Vol. IX. p. 117; Douglas, p. 101.
