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62   MARCO POLO.

VOL. 1. BK. I.

State of Lob Nor and Koko Nor, which, after its conquest by

China in 609, was turned into the Shen-shen prefecture ; in fact,

the Sui Emperor was himself at Kam Chou or ` Campichu '

when this very step was taken." (E. H. PARKER, Asiatic Quart.

Rev., Jan., 1904, p. 144.)

LVIII., p. 282. Alaskan is. not an abbreviation of Alade-Shan and

has nothing to do with the name of Eleuth, written in Mongol Ogäläit.

Nuntuh (nuntiik) is the media.val Mongol form of the actual nutuk, an

encampment. (PELLLOT.)

LVIII., p. 283, n. 3.

GURUN.

Gurun = Kurun = Chinese K'u lun = Mongol Urga.

58.  p. 283, n. 3. The stuff sa-ha-la (= saghlat) is to be found

often in the Chinese texts of the XIVth and XVth Centuries.

(PELLIOT.)

59.  pp. 284 seq.

KING GEORGE.

King or Prince George of Marco Polo and Monte Corvino

belonged to the Öngüt tribe. He was killed in Mongolia in

1298, leaving an infant child called Shu-ngan (Giôvanni) baptized

by Monte Corvino. George was transcribed Körgüz and Görgüz

by the Persian historians. See PELLIOT, T'oung Pao, 1914,

pp. 632 seq. and Cathay, III., p. 15 n.

LIX., p. 286.

TENDUC.

Prof. Pelliot (7ourn. As., Mai-Juin, 1912, pp. 595-6) thinks

that it might be Tien tö,   f~ , on the river So ling

(Selenga).

LIX., p. 291.

CHRISTIANS.

In the Mongol Empire, Christians were known under the

name of tarsa and especially under this of ärkägiin, in Chinese

ye-li-k'o-wen ; tarsa, was generally used by the Persian historians.

Cf. PELLIOT, T'oung Pao, 1914, p. 636.

LIX., p. 295, n. 6. Instead of Ku-wei, read K'u-wai. (PELLIOT.)