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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 |
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At Moscow he ordered a general massacre, and 270,000 right ears are said to have
been laid before him in testimony to its accomplishment. It is odd enough that a
mistake like that in the text is not confined to Polo. The chronicle of Kazan,
according to a Russian writer, makes Sain succeed Batu. (Carpini, p. 746; J. As.
sér. IV. tom. xvii. p. 109; Büsching, V. 493; also Golden Horde, p. 142, note.)
Batu himself, in the great invasion of the West, was with the southern host in
Hungary; the northern army which fought at Liegnitz was under Baidar, a son of
Chaghatai.
According to the Masdlak-al-Absár, the territory of Kipchak, over which this
dynasty ruled, extended in length from the Sea of Istambul to the River Irtish, a
journey of 6 months, and in breadth from Bolghar to the Iron Gates, 4 (?) months'
journey. A second traveller, quoted in the same work, says the empire extended
from the Iron Gates to Yughra (see p. 483 supra), and from the Irtish to the country
of the Nemej. The last term is very curious, being the Russian Niemtse, "Dumb,"
a term which in Russia is used as a proper name of the Germans: a people, to wit,
unable to speak Slavonic. (N. et Ex. XIII. i. 282, 284.)
[["An allusion to the Mongol invasion of Poland and Silesia is found in the
Yuen-shi, ch. cxxi., biography of Wu-liang-ho t'ai (the son of Su-bu-t'ai). It is
stated there that Wu-liang-ho t'ai [Uriangcadai] accompanied Badu when he invaded
the countries of Kin-ch'a (Kipchak) and Wu-la-sz (Russia). Subsequently he took
part also in the expedition against the P'o-lie-rh and Nie-mi-sze." (Dr. Bretschneider,
Med. Res. I. p. 322.) With reference to these two names, Dr. Bretschneider says,
in a note, that he has no doubt that the Poles and Germans are intended. "As to
its origin, the Russian linguists generally derive it from nemoi, 'dumb,' i.e., unable
to speak Slavonic. To the ancient Byzantine chroniclers the Germans were known
under the same name. Cf. Muralt's Essai de Chronogr. Byzant., sub anno
882: 'Les Slavons maltraités par les guerriers Németzi de Swiatopole' (King of
Great Moravia, 870-894). Sophocles' Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine
periods from B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100: 'Nemitzi' Austrians, Germans. This name is
met also in the Mohammedan authors. According to the Masdlak-al-Absár, of
the first half of the 14th century (transl. by Quatremère, N. et Ext. XXII. 284), the
country of the Kipchaks extended (eastward) to the country of the Nemedj, which
separates the Franks from the Russians. The Turks still call the Germans Niemesi;
the Hungarians term them Nemet."—H. C.]]
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