Des Mongols, I. p. 95), but Rashid in that case
speaks not of Ho-si wu, but of the Tangut Empire, which in Chinese was
called Ho-si, meaning west of the (Yellow) River. (See supra, p. 205).
Ho-si wu, as well as Yang-ts'un, both exist even now as villages on the
Pei-ho River, and near the first ancient walls can be seen. Ho-si wu means:
'Custom's barrier west of the (Pei-ho) river.'" (Palladius, p. 45.) This
identification cannot be accepted on account of the position of Ho-si wu.
- H. C.]
NOTE 7. - I suppose the best accessible illustration of the Kaan's great
tent may be that in which the Emperor Kienlung received Lord Macartney in
the same region in 1793, of which one view is given in Staunton's plates.
Another exists in the Staunton Collection in the B. M., of which I give a
reduced sketch.
Kublai's great tent, after all, was but a fraction of the size of Akbar's
audience-tents, the largest of which held 10,000 people, and took 1000
farrashes a week's work to pitch it, with machines. But perhaps the
manner of holding people is differently estimated. (Ain Akb. 53.)
In the description of the tent-poles, Pauthier's text has "trois
coulombes de fust de pieces moult bien encuierees," etc. The G. T. has
"de leing d'especies mout bien cures," etc.
