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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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aid in the overthrow of a mighty rebel against the
throne. There followed other rude attacks from
Tibetans, who for a time threw themselves across
Western China, cutting communication with Tur-
kestan. Again a vigorous ruler was born into the
Imperial throne or a vigorous usurper chanced to
seize it; whereupon the annoying Tibetans were
hurled back to their lonely seats. A little later,
another Mongol people, invading from the north,
grasped the sheep-prey which was the desire of
many wolves. These were the Hoi-he or Hu-he,
doubtless only another branch of that puzzling,
widespread family, whose kaleidoscopic marches
and countermarches across Asia have given to his-
torians a fine juggling exercise with shifting names
—Mongols, Tartars, Hueng-nu, Yue-che, Uigurs,
Tanguts, Ephthalites, Tu-Kiu, Hoi-He, Kirghiz,
Kalmuk.
From the Chinese Wall to the Dnieper, from the
Tibetan frontier to the Arctic Zone, they are seen
fighting each other; overrunning the borders of
civilisation; upsetting the beginnings of order which
some of their own blood may have established;
powerful while yet fresh from the steppe or the
mountain-side; easily corrupted by contact with
civil luxury; forming widespread and ephemeral
organisations which passed leaving no traces within
their bounds and only blood to mark their excur-
sions; generally careless about religious matters;
building little and moving much; they are the will-
o'-the-wisp of Asian history. And the story of
Turkestan is the story of one inroad after another,
ever with reversion to China.
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