[127] Penny Cyclopædia, Art. Thian Shan nan lu.
[128] Rémusat, Histoire de Khotan, p. 35.
[129] Concerning the nomenclature of this region compare Rémusat, Histoire de Khotan, p. 66. See, moreover, ib., p. 47 ff., the legend of a drove of desert rats assisting the king of this land against the army of his enemies.
[130] “Galdan, better known by his title of Contaïsch”—Rémusat, Nouveaux Mélanges, Tome II., p. 29. See also Schuyler’s Turkistan, Vol. II., p. 168.
[131] Compare Rémusat (Nouveaux Mélanges, Tome II., p. 102), who has compiled a brief life of their leader Ubusha. De Quincey’s essay, The Flight of a Tartar Tribe. Ritter, Asien, Bd. V. pp. 531-583: Welthistorischer Einfluss des chinesischen Reichs auf Central- und West-Asien.
[132] Chinese Repository, Vol. V., pp. 267, 316, 351, etc.; Vol. IX., p. 113. Penny Cyclopædia, Art. Songaria. Boulger, Russia and England in Central Asia, 2 Vols., London, 1879. Schuyler, Turkistan, 2 vols., N. Y., 1877. Petermann’s Mittheilungen, Appendices XLII. and XLIII., 1875.
[133] This derivation is explained somewhat differently in Rémusat, Nouveaux Mélanges, Tome I., p. 190.
[134] To these Ritter adds the names of Wei, Dzang, Nga-ri, Kham, Bhodi, Peu-u-Tsang, Si-Dzang, Thupho, Tobbat, Töböt, Tübet, Tibet, and Barantola, as all applying to this country. Asien, Bd. III., S. 174-183.
[135] See Rémusat, Nouveaux Mélanges, I., p. 190, for notices of tribes anciently inhabiting this district and Bokhara. Compare also Heeren (Historical Researches, Vol. I., pp. 180-186), who gives in brief the accounts of Herodotus and Ctesias.
[136] Introduction by Col. Yule, in Gill’s River of Golden Sand.