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CHAP. LXXIV. p. ISo.

SAIANFU " P'AO " ALANS.

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LXX., p. 167-

THE ALANS.

According to the Yuen Shi and Devéria, Journ. Asiat.,

Nov.-Dec., 1896, 432, in 1229 and 1241, when Okkodai's army

reached the country of the Aas (Alans), their chief submitted at

once and a body of one thousand Alans were kept for the private

guard of the Great Khan ; Mangu enlisted in his bodyguard

half the troops of the Alan Prince, Arslan, whose younger son

Nicholas took a part in the expedition of the Mongols against

Karajang (Yun Nan). This Alan imperial guard was still in

existence in 1272, 1286, and 1309, and it was divided into two

corps with headquarters in the Ling pei province (Karakorúm)•

See also Bretschneider, Mediceval Researches, II., pp. 84-90.

The massacre of a body of Christian Alans related by Marco

Polo (II., p. 178) is confirmed by Chinese sources.

LXXIV., p. 18o, n. 3.

ALANS.

See Notes in new edition of Cathay and the Way thither,

III., pp. 179 seq., 248.

SIEGE OF SAIANFU.

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

Branch of the Roy. As. Soc., X X X V I I., 1906, p. 195 : " Colonel

Yule's note requires some amendment, and he has evidently been

misled by the French translations. The two Mussulmans who

assisted Kúblái with guns were not ` A-la-wa-ting of Mu-fa-li

and Ysemain of Huli or Hiulie,' but A-la-pu-tan of Mao-sa-li

and Y-sz-ma-yin of Shih-la. Shih-la is Shiraz, the Serazy of

Marco Polo, and Mao-sa-li is Mosul. Bretschneider cites the

facts in his Medi oval Notes, and seems to have used another

edition, giving the names as A-lao-wa-ting of Mu-fa-li and

Y-sz-ma-yin of Hü-lieh ; but even he points out that Hulagu is

meant, i.e. ` a man from Hulagu's country.' "

LXX., p. 169.

P'AO."

" Captain Gill's testimony as to the ancient ` guns ' used by

the Chinese is, of course (as, in fact, he himself states), second-

hand and hearsay. In Vol. XXIV. of the China Review I have

given the name and date of a General who used p'ao so far back

as the seventh century." (E. H. PARKER, Asiatic Quart. Rev.

Jan., 1904, pp. 146-7.)

LXXIV., p. 179 n.

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