ueror appears in Fr. Ricold as _Camiuscan_, from which the
transition to Cambuscan presents no difficulty. _Camius_ was, I suppose, a
clerical corruption out of _Canjus_ or _Cianjus_. In the chronicle of St.
Antonino, however, we have him called "_Chinghiscan rectius_ Tamgius
_Cam_" (XIX. c. 8). If this is not merely the usual blunder of _t_ for
_c_, it presents a curious analogy to the form _Tankiz Khan_ always used
by Ibn Batuta. I do not know the origin of the latter, unless it was
suggested by _tankis_ (Ar.) "Turning upside down." (See _Pereg. Quat._, p.
119; _I. B._ III. 22, etc.)

NOTE 2.--Polo's history here is inadmissible. He introduces into the list
of the supreme Kaans _Batu_, who was only Khan of Kipchak (the Golden
Horde), and _Hulaku_ who was Khan of Persia, whilst he omits _Okkodai_,
the immediate successor of Chinghiz. It is also remarkable that he uses
the form _Alacou_ here instead of _Alaue_ as elsewhere; nor does he seem to
mean the same person, for he was quite well aware that _Alaue_ was Lord of
the Levant, who sent ambassadors to the Great Khan Cublay, and could not
therefore be one of his predecessors. The real succession ran: 1.
Chinghiz; 2. Okkodai; 3. Kuyuk; 4. Mangku; 5. Kublai.

There are quite as great errors in the history of Haiton, who had probably
greater advantages in this respect than Marco. And I may note that in
Teixeira's abridgment of Mirkhond, Hulaku is made to succeed Mangku Kaan
on the throne of Chinghiz. (_Relaciones_, p. 338.)

NOTE 3.--The ALTAI here certainly does not mean the Great South Siberian
Range to which the name is now applied. Both _Altai_ and _Altun-Khan_
appear sometimes to be applied by Sanang Setzen to the Khingan of the
Chinese, or range running immediately north of the Great Wall near Kalgan.
(See ch. lxi. note I.) But in reference to this matter of the burial of
Chinghiz, he describes the place as "the district of Yekeh Utek, between
the shady side of the Altai-Khan and the sunny side of the Kentei-Khan."
Now the Kentei-Khan (_khan_ here meaning "mountain") is near the sources
of the Onon, immediately to the north-east of Urga; and Altai-Khan in this
connection cannot mean the hills near the Great Wall, 500 miles distant.

According to Rashiduddin, Chinghiz was buried at a place called _Burkan
Kaldun_ ("God's Hill"), or _Yekeh Kuruk_ ("The Great Sacred or Tabooed
Place"); in another passage he calls the spot _Budah Undur_ (which means,
I fancy, the same a