The Bularguji Sticks Up A Flag By His Tent Or Hut To Enable
People To Find Him, And So Recover Their Lost Property." (Golden Horde,
P. 245.) And In The Appendix To That Work (P. 476) There Is A Copy Of A
Warrant To Such A Bularguji Or Provost Marshal.
The derivation appears
therein as from Bularghu, "Lost property." Here again it was impossible
to give both form and meaning of the word more exactly than Polo has done.
Though Hammer writes these terminations in ji (dschi), I believe chi
(tschi) is preferable.
We have this same word Bularghu in a grant of
privileges to the Venetians by the Ilkhan Abusaid, 22nd December, 1320,
which has been published by M. Mas Latrie: "Item, se algun cavalo
bolargo fosse trovado apreso de algun vostro veneciano," etc. - "If any
stray horse shall be found in the possession of a Venetian," etc. (See
Bibl. de l'Ecole des Chartes, 1870 - tirage a part, p. 26.)
["There are two Mongol terms, which resemble this word Bularguchi, viz.
Balagachi and Buluguchi. But the first was the name used for the
door-keeper of the tent of the Khan. By Buluguchi the Mongols understood
a hunter and especially sable hunters. No one of these terms can be made
consistent with the accounts given by M. Polo regarding the Bularguchi.
In the Kui sin tsa shi, written by Chow Mi, in the former part of the
14th century, interesting particulars regarding Mongol hunting are found."
(Palladius, 47.) In chapter 101.
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