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CHAP. XLII. p. 215.   CAMUL CHINGINTALAS.   5'

The splendour of the temples and the number of the monks and

nuns established near them had, no doubt, sadly diminished in

the interval."

XL., p. 205.

Prof. Pelliot accepts as a Mongol plural Tangut, but remarks

that it is very ancient, as Tangut is already to be found in the

Orkhon inscriptions. At the time of Chingiz, Tangut was a

singular in Mongol, and Tangu is nowhere to be found.

XL., p. 206.

The Tangutans are descendants of the Tang-tu-chüeh " ; it

must be understood that they are descendants of T'u Kiueh of

the T'ang Period. (PELLI0T.)

Lines 7 and 8 from the foot of the page : instead of T'ung hoang,

read Tun hoang ; Kiu-kaan, read Tsiu tsüan.

40.  p. 207, note 2. The ` peculiar language " is si-hia (PELLIOT).

41.  pp. 210, 212, n. 3.

THE PROVINCE OF CAMUL.

See on the discreditable custom of the people of Qamul, a

long note in the second edition of Cathay, I., pp. 249-250.

XLI., p. 211.

Prof. Parker remarks (Asiatic Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904, p. 142)

that : " The Chinese (Manchu) agent at Urga has not (nor, I

believe, ever had) any control over the Little Bucharia Cities.

Moreover, since the reconquest of Little Bucharia in 1877-1878,

the whole of those cities have been placed under the Governor

of the New Territory (Kan Suh Sinkiang Sün-fu), whose capital

is at Urumtsi. The native Mohammedan Princes of Hami have

still left to them a certain amount of home rule, and so lately

as 1902 a decree appointing the rotation of their visits to Peking

was issued. The present Prince's name is Shaznu Hust, or

Hussot."

XLII., p. 215.

THE PROVINCE OF CHINGINTALAS.

Prof. E. H. PARKER writes in the Journ. of the North China

Branch of the Royal As. Soc., XXXVII., 1906, p. 195 : " On

p. 215 of Yule's Vol. I. some notes of Palladius' are given touch-

ing Chingkintalas, but it is not stated that Palladius supposed

the word Cz'ih kin to date after the Mongols, that is, that