Hammer Is Not, I Find, Here Copying From Wassaf, And I Have Not Been Able
To Procure A Thorough Search Of The Work Of Rashiduddin, Which Probably
Was His Authority.
As well as the date can be made out from the History of
the Ilkhans, Ghazan must have met his bride towards the end of 1293, or
quite the beginning of 1294.
Rashiduddin in another place mentions the
fair lady from Cathay; "The ordu (or establishment) of Tukiti Khatun was
given to KUKACHI KHATUN, who had been brought from the Kaan's Court, and
who was a kinswoman of the late chief Queen Bulghan. Kukachi, the wife of
the Padshah of Islam, Ghazan Khan, died in the month of Shaban, 695," i.e.
in June, 1296, so that the poor girl did not long survive her promotion.
(See Hammer's Ilch. II. 20, and 8, and I. 273; and Quatremere's
Rashiduddin, p. 97.) Kukachin was the name also of the wife of Chingkim,
Kublai's favourite son; but she was of the Kungurat tribe. (Deguignes,
IV. 179.)
NOTE 7. - Here Ramusio's text says: "During this journey Messers Nicolo,
Maffeo, and Marco heard the news that the Great Khan had departed this
life; and this caused them to give up all hope of returning to those
parts."
NOTE 8. - This Princess of Manzi, or Southern China, is mentioned only in
the Geog. Text and in the Crusca, which is based thereon. I find no notice
of her among the wives of Ghazan or otherwise.
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