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CHAP. LI. p. 249.   CHINGIZ KHAN TAILGAN.

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the Princes of that tribe used to hold a Nüchen patent. A solu-

tion of this unexplained fact may yet turn up." (E. H. PARKER,

Asiatic Quart. Rev., Jan. 1904, p. 13 9.)

Page 236, note f. Instead of Tura, read Tula. (PELLIOT.)

LI.. pp. 245, 248.

DEATH OF CHINGIZ KHAN.

" Gaubil's statement that he was wounded in 1212 by a stray

arrow, which compelled him to raise the siege of Ta-t'ung Fu, is

exactly borne out by the Yüan Shi, which adds that in the

seventh moon (August) of 1227 (shortly after the surrender of

the Tangut King) the conqueror died at the travelling-palace of

Ha-la T'u on the Sa-li stream at the age of sixty-six (sixty-five

by our reckoning). As less than a month before he was present

at Ts'ing-shui (lat. 342°, long. 1o62°), and was even on his dying

bed, giving instructions how to meet the Nüchên army at T'ung-

kwan (lat. 34.2°, long. II04°), we may assume that the place of

his death was on the Upper Wei River near the frontiers joining

the modern Kan Suh and Shen Si provinces. It is true the Sa-

li River (not stream) is thrice mentioned, and also the Sa-16-chu

River, both in Mongolia ; on the other hand, the Sa-li Ouigours

are frequently mentioned as living in West Kan Suh ; so that we

may take it the word Sali or Sari was a not uncommon Turkish

word. Palladius' identification of K'i-lien with ' Kerulen ' I am

afraid cannot be entertained.. The former word frequently occurs

in the second century B.C., and is stated to be a second Hiung-nu

(Turkish) word for ` sky ' or ' heaven.' At or about that date

the Kerulen was known to the Chinese as the Lu-kü River, and

the geographies of the present dynasty clearly identify it as such

The T'ien-Shan are sometimes called the K'i-lien Shan, and the

word K'i-lien is otherwise well established along the line of the

Great Wall." (E. H. PARKER, Asiatic Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904,

pp. 136-7.)

Prof. Pelliot informs me that in No. 3 (Sept., 1918) of Vol. III

of Chinese Social and Political Science Review there is an article

on the Discovery of and Investigation concerning the Tomb of

Gengis Khan. I have not seen it.

LI., p. 249.

TAILGAN.

" The tázilgan, or autumn meeting of the Mongols, is probably

the t'li-lin, or autumn meeting, of the ancient Hiung-nu described