GURUN.
Gurun = Kurun = Chinese K’u lun = Mongol Urga.
LVIII., p. 283, n. 3. The stuff sa-ha-la (= saghlat) is to be found often in the Chinese texts of the XIVth and XVth Centuries. (Pelliot.)
LIX., pp. 284 seq.
KING GEORGE.
King or Prince George of Marco Polo and Monte Corvino belonged to the Öngüt tribe. He was killed in Mongolia in 1298, leaving an infant child called Shu-ngan (Giòvanni) baptized by Monte Corvino. George was transcribed Körgüz and Görgüz by the Persian historians. See Pelliot, T’oung Pao, 1914, pp. 632 seq. and Cathay, III., p. 15 n.
LIX., p. 286.
TENDUC.
Prof. Pelliot (Journ. As., Mai–Juin, 1912, pp. 595–6) thinks that it might be Tien tö, 天 德, on the river So ling (Selenga).
LIX., p. 291.