s Burkan Kaldun), near the River Selenga. Burkan Kaldun
is often mentioned by Sanang Setzen, and Quatremere seems to demonstrate
the identity of this place with the mountain called by Pallas (and
Timkowski) _Khanoolla_. This is a lofty mountain near Urga, covered with
dense forest, and is indeed the first woody mountain reached in travelling
from Peking. It is still held sacred by the Mongols and guarded from
access, though the tradition of Chinghiz's grave seems to be extinct. Now,
as this Khanoolla ("Mount Royal," for _khan_ here means "sovereign," and
_oolla_ "mountain") stands immediately to the south of the _Kentei_
mentioned in the quotation from S. Setzen, this identification agrees with
his statement, on the supposition that the Khanoolla is the Altai of the
same quotation. The Khanoolla must also be the _Han_ mountain which Mongol
chiefs claiming descent from Chinghiz named to Gaubil as the burial-place
of that conqueror. Note that the Khanoolla, which we suppose to be the
Altai of Polo, and here of Sanang Setzen, belongs to a range known as
_Khingan_, whilst we see that Setzen elsewhere applies Altai and
Altan-Khan to the other Khingan near the Great Wall.

Erdmann relates, apparently after Rashiduddin, that Chinghiz was buried at
the foot of a tree which had taken his fancy on a hunting expedition, and
which he had then pointed out as the place where he desired to be
interred. It was then conspicuous, but afterwards the adjoining trees shot
up so rapidly, that a dense wood covered the whole locality, and it became
impossible to identify the spot. (_Q. R._ 117 seqq.; _Timk._ I. 115 seqq.,
II. 475-476; _San. Setz._ 103, 114-115, 108-109; _Gaubil_, 54; _Erd._
444.)

["There are no accurate indications," says Palladius (l.c. pp. 11-13), "in
the documents of the Mongol period on the burial-places of Chingiz Khan
and of the Khans who succeeded him. The _Yuan-shi_ or 'History of the
Mongol Dynasty in China,' in speaking of the burial of the Khans, mentions
only that they used to be conveyed from Peking to the north, to their
common burial-ground in the _K'i-lien_ Valley. This name cannot have
anything in common with the ancient _K'i-lien_ of the Hiung-nu, a hill
situated to the west of the Mongol desert; the _K'i-lien_ of the Mongols
is to be sought more to the east. When Khubilai marched out against Prince
Nayan, and reached the modern Talnor, news was received of the occupation
of the Khan's burial-ground by the r