emarkable
that the Kin (Nuechen) Dynasty in its Annals leaves no mention whatever of
the Kerait tribe, or of any tribe having an approximate name, although the
_Yuean Shi_ states that the Princes of that tribe used to hold a Nuechen
patent. A solution of this unexplained fact may yet turn up." (E.H.
PARKER, _Asiatic Quart. Rev._, Jan. 1904, p. 139.)

Page 236, note [dagger] Instead of _Tura_, read _Tula_. (PELLIOT.)

LI., pp. 245, 248.

DEATH OF CHINGIZ KHAN.

"Gaubil's statement that he was wounded in 1212 by a stray arrow, which
compelled him to raise the siege of Ta-t'ung Fu, is exactly borne out by
the _Yuean Shi_, which adds that in the seventh moon (August) of 1227
(shortly after the surrender of the Tangut King) the conqueror died at the
travelling-palace of Ha-la T'u on the Sa-li _stream_ at the age of
sixty-six (sixty-five by our reckoning). As less than a month before he was
present at Ts'ing-shui (lat. 34-1/2 deg., long. 106-1/2 deg.), and was even
on his dying bed, giving instructions how to meet the Nuechen army at
T'ung-kwan (lat. 34-1/2 deg., long. 110-1/4 deg.), we may assume that the
place of his death was on the Upper Wei River near the frontiers joining
the modern Kan Suh and Shen Si provinces. It is true the Sa-li _River_
(not stream) is thrice mentioned, and also the Sa-le-chu River, both in
Mongolia; on the other hand, the Sa-li Ouigours are frequently mentioned
as living in West Kan Suh; so that we may take it the word _Sali_ or _Sari_
was a not uncommon Turkish word. Palladius' identification, of _K'i-lien_
with 'Kerulen' I am afraid cannot be entertained. The former word
frequently occurs in the second century B.C., and is stated to be a second
Hiung-nu (Turkish) word for 'sky' or 'heaven.' At or about that date the
Kerulen was known to the Chinese as the Lu-kue River, and the geographies
of the present dynasty clearly identify it as such. The T'ien-Shan are
sometimes called the K'i-lien Shan, and the word _K'i-lien_ is otherwise
well established along the line of the Great Wall." (E.H. PARKER, _Asiatic
Quart. Rev._, Jan., 1904, pp. 136-7.)

Prof. Pelliot informs me that in No. 3 (Sept., 1918) of Vol. III of
_Chinese Social and Political Science Review_ these is an article on the
_Discovery of and Investigation concerning the Tomb of Gengis Khan_. I
have not seen it.

LI., p. 249.

TAILGAN.

"The _tailgan_, or autumn meeting of the Mongols, is probably the
_tai-lin_, or autumn meeting,