can be made
consistent with the accounts given by M. Polo regarding the Bularguchi.
In the _Kui sin tsa shi_, written by Chow Mi, in the former part of the
14th century, interesting particulars regarding Mongol hunting are found."
(_Palladius_, 47.) In chapter 101. _Djan-ch'i_, of the _Yuen-shi_,
Falconers are called _Ying fang pu lie_, and a certain class of the
Falconers are termed _Bo-lan-ghi_. (_Bretschneider, Med. Res._ I.
p. 188.)--H. C.]

NOTE 5.--A like description is given by Odoric of the mode in which a
successor of Kublai travelled between Cambaluc and Shangtu, with his
falcons also in the chamber beside him. What Kublai had adopted as an
indulgence to his years and gout, his successors probably followed as a
precedent without these excuses.

[With regard to the gout of Kublai Khan, Palladius (p. 48) writes: "In the
Corean history allusion is made twice to the Khan's suffering from this
disease. Under the year 1267, it is there recorded that in the 9th month,
envoys of the Khan with a letter to the King arrived in Corea. Kubilai
asked for the skin of the _Akirho munho_, a fish resembling a cow. The
envoy was informed that, as the Khan suffered from swollen feet it would
be useful for him to wear boots made of the skin of this animal, and in
the 10th month, the king of Corea forwarded to the Khan seventeen skins of
it. It is further recorded in the Corean history, that in the 8th month of
1292, sorcerers and _Shaman_ women from Corea were sent at the request of
the Khan to cure him of a disease of the feet and hands. At that time the
king of Corea was also in Peking, and the sorcerers and Shaman women were
admitted during an audience the King had of the Khan. They took the Khan's
hands and feet and began to recite exorcisms, whilst Kubilai was
laughing."--H. C.]

NOTE 6.--Marsden and Pauthier identify Cachar Modun with _Tchakiri
Mondou_, or _Moudon_, which appears in D'Anville's atlas as the title of a
"Levee de terre naturelle," in the extreme east of Manchuria, and in lat.
44 deg., between the Khinga Lake and the sea. This position is out of the
question. It is more than 900 miles, _in a straight line_ from Peking, and
the mere journey thither and back would have taken Kublai's camp something
like six months. The name _Kachar Modun_ is probably Mongol, and as
_Katzar_ is = "land, region," and _Modun_ = "wood" or "tree," a fair
interpretation lies on the surface. Such a name indeed has little
individuali