BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1908
Copyright, 1908,
By A. M. Curtin.
All rights reserved
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A.
THIS WORK
AS WAS ITS COMPANION VOLUME
The Mongols, A History
IS DEDICATED TO
Theodore Roosevelt
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
NOTE
In gathering material for “[The Mongols]” and “The Mongols in Russia,” Mr. Curtin used the early chronicles of China, Persia, and Russia. To obtain these chronicles he went several times to Russia and once to the Orient. [[ix]]