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Sari Uigurs are mentioned by Du Plan Carpin, as Sari Huiur. Can Sala be the same as S'ari ? "
" Mohammedans," says Mr. Rockhill (Ibid. p. 39), " here are divided into two sects, known as ` white-capped Hui-hui,' and ` black-capped Hui-hui.' One of the questions which separate them is the hour at which fast can be broken during the Ramadan. Another point which divides them is that the white-capped burn incense, as do the ordinary Chinese ; and the Salar condemn this as Paganish. The usual way by which one finds out to which sect a Mohammedan belongs is by asking him if he burns incense. The black-capped Hui-hui are more frequently called Salar, and are much the more devout and fanatical. They live in the vicinity of Ho-chou, in and around Ilsiin-hua t'ing, their chief town being known as Salar Pakun or Paken."
Ho-chou, in Western Kan-Sub, about 320 li (107 miles) from Lan-chau, has a
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population of about 30,000 nearly entirely Mahomedans with 24 mosques ; it is a " hot-bed of rebellion." Salar-pa-kun means " the eight thousand Salar families," or "the eight thousands of the Salar." The eight kiun (Chinese t'sun ? a village, a commune) constituting the Salar pa-kun are Kä-tzú, the oldest and largest, said to have over 1300 families living in it, Chang-chia, Millen, Ch'ing-shui, Munta, Tsu-chi, Antasu and Ch'a-chia. Besides these Salar kiun there are five outer (wai) kiun : Ts'a-pa, Ngan-ssú-to, Hei-ch'eng, Kan-tu and Kargan, inhabited by a few Salar and a mixed population of Chinese and T'u-ssú ; each of these wai-wu kiun has, theoretically, fifteen villages in it. Tradition says that the first Salar who came to China (from Rim or Turkey) arrived in this valley in the third year of Hung-wu of
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