Lastly the root-word may be the Chinese Kiuen "dog," as Pauthier says.
The mastiffs were probably Tibetan, but may have come through China, and
brought a name with them, like Boule-dogues in France.
[Palladius (p. 46) says that Chinuchi or Cunici "have no resemblance
with any of the names found in the Yuen shi, ch. xcix., article Ping
chi (military organisation), and relating to the hunting staff of the
Khan, viz.: Si pao ch'i (falconers), Ho r ch'i (archers), and Ke lien
ch'i (probably those who managed the hounds)." - H. C.]
CHAPTER XX.
HOW THE EMPEROR GOES ON A HUNTING EXPEDITION.
After he has stopped at his capital city those three months that I
mentioned, to wit, December, January, February, he starts off on the 1st
day of March, and travels southward towards the Ocean Sea, a journey of
two days.[NOTE 1] He takes with him full 10,000 falconers, and some 500
gerfalcons besides peregrines, sakers, and other hawks in great numbers;
and goshawks also to fly at the water-fowl.[NOTE 2] But do not suppose
that he keeps all these together by him; they are distributed about,
hither and thither, one hundred together, or two hundred at the utmost, as
he thinks proper. But they are always fowling as they advance, and the
most part of the quarry taken is carried to the Emperor.
