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0064 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
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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'un? a village, a
commune) constituting the Salar pa-kun are Kä-tzü, the oldest and largest, said to
have over 1300 families living in it, Chang-chia, Némen, 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-ssü-to, Hei-ch'eng, Kan-tu and Kargan, inhabited by a few Salar and
a mixed population of Chinese and T'u-ssü; each of these wai-wu kiun has,
theoretically, fifteen villages in it. Tradition says that the first Salar who came to China
(from Rûm or Turkey) arrived in this valley in the third year of Hung-wu of