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f Yuen Nan, or, indeed, any princely title. In 1287 Ai-ya-ch'ih is mentioned as being at Shen Chou (Mukden) in connection with Kublai's 'personally conducted' expedition against Nayen. In 1289 one more son, Geukju, was patented Prince of Ning Yuean. In 1293 Kublai's _third son_ Chinkin, received a posthumous title, and Chinkin's son Temur was declared heir-apparent to Kublai. "The above are the only sons of Kublai whose names I have noticed in the Annals. In the special table of Princes Numugan is styled Peh-an (instead of Peh-p'ing) Prince. Aghrukji's name appears in the table (chap. 108, p. 107), but though he is styled Prince of Si-p'ing, he is not there stated to be a son of Kublai; nor in the note I have supplied touching Tibet is he styled a _hwang-tsz_ or 'imperial son.' In the table Hukaji is described as being in 1268 Prince of Yuen Nan, a title 'inherited in 1280 by Essen Temur.' I cannot discover anything about the other alleged sons in Yule's note (Vol. I., p. 361). The Chinese count Kublai's years as eighty, he having died just at the beginning of 1294 (our February); this would make him seventy-nine at the very outside, according to our mode of reckoning, or even seventy-eight if he was born towards the end of a year, which indeed he was (eighth moon). If a man is born on the last day of the year he is two years old the very next day according to Chinese methods of counting, which, I suppose, include the ten months which they consider are spent in the womb." (E.H. PARKER, _As. Quart. Rev._, Jan., 1904, pp. 137-139.) XI., p. 370, n. 13. The character _King_ in _King-shan_ is not the one representing Court [Chinese] but [Chinese].--Read "Wan-_sui_-Shan" instead of _Wan-su-Shan_. XII., p. 380. _Keshikten_ has nothing to do with _Kalchi_. (PELLIOT.) XVIII., p. 398. THE CHEETA, OR HUNTING LEOPARD. Cf. Chapters on Hunting Dogs and Cheetas, being an extract from the "_Kitab'u' l-Bazyarah_," a treatise on Falconry, by _Ibn Kustrajim_, an Arab writer of the Tenth Century. By Lieut.-Colonel D.C. Phillott and Mr. R.F. Azoo (_Journ. and Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal_, Jan., 1907, pp. 47-50): "The cheeta is the offspring of a lioness, by a leopard that coerces her, and, for this reason, cheetas are sterile like mules and all other hybrids. No animal of the same size is as weighty as the cheeta. It is the most somnolent animal on earth. The best are those that are 'hollow-bellied,' roach backed, and hav
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