Russian by Galsan
Gomboeff), in relating the history of the Mongols after their expulsion
from China, and speaking of the Khans' tombs, calls them _Naiman tzagan
gher_, i.e. 'Eight White Tents' (according to the number of chambers for
the souls of the chief deceased Khans in Peking), and sometimes simply
_Tzagan gher_, 'the White Tent,' which, according to the translator's
explanation, denotes only Chingiz Khan's tomb."

"According to the Chinese Annals (_T'ung kien kang mu_), quoted by Dr. E.
Bretschneider (_Med. Res._ I. p. 157), Chinghiz died near the _Liu p'an
shan_ in 1227, after having subdued the Tangut empire. On modern Chinese
maps _Liu p'an shan_ is marked south of the city of _Ku yuean chou_,
department of _P'ing liang_, in _Kan suh_. The _Yuean shi_ however, implies
that he died in Northern Mongolia. We read there, in the annals, _s.a._
1227, that in the fifth intercalary month the Emperor moved to the
mountain _Liu p'an shan_ in order to avoid the heat of the summer. In the
sixth month the empire of the _Hia_ (Tangut) submitted. Chinghiz rested on
the river _Si Kiang_ in the district of _Ts'ing shui_ (in Kansuh; it has
still the same name). In autumn, in the seventh month (August), on the day
_jen wu_, the Emperor fell ill, and eight days later died in his palace
_Ha-lao-t'u_ on the River _Sa-li_. This river Sali is repeatedly mentioned
in the _Yuean shi_, viz. in the first chapter, in connection with the first
military doings of Chinghiz. Rashid reports (_D'Ohsson_, I. 58) that
Chinghiz in 1199 retired to his residence _Sari Kihar_. The _Yuean chao pi
shi_ (Palladius' transl., 81) writes the same name _Saari Keher_ (_Keher_
in modern Mongol means 'a plain'). On the ancient map of Mongolia found in
the _Yuean shi lei pien_, _Sa-li K'ie-rh_ is marked south of the river
_Wa-nan_ (the _Onon_ of our maps), and close to _Sa-li K'ie-rh_ we read:
'Here was the original abode of the Yuean' (Mongols). Thus it seems the
passage in the Yuean history translated above intimates that Chinghiz died
in Mongolia, and not near the _Liu p'an shan_, as is generally believed.
The _Yuean ch'ao pi shi_ (Palladius' transl., 152) and the _'Ts'in cheng lu_
(Palladius' transl., 195) both agree in stating that, after subduing the
Tangut empire, Chinghiz returned home, and then died. Colonel Yule, in his
_Marco Polo_ (I. 245), states 'that Rashid calls the place of Chinghiz'
death _Leung shan_, which appears to be the mountain range sti