(D'Ohsson, i. 54; Howorth, History, I.,
pt. i. 22, 698.)" - H. C.]
[11] [Onan Kerule is "the country watered by the Orkhon and Kerulun
Rivers, i.e. the country to the south and south-east of Lake Baikal.
The headquarters (ya-chang) of the principal chief of the Uigurs in
the eighth century was 500 li (about 165 miles) south-west of the
confluence of the Wen-Kun ho (Orkhon) and the Tu-lo ho (Tura). Its
ruins, sometimes, but wrongly, confounded with those of the Mongol
city of Karakorum, some 20 miles from it, built in 1235 by Ogodai, are
now known by the name of Kara Balgasun, 'Black City.'" [See p. 228.]
The name Onankerule seems to be taken from the form Onan-ou-
Keloran, which occurs in Mohammedan writers. (Quatremere, 115 et
seq.; see also T'ang shu, Bk. 43b; Rockhill, Rubruck, 116,
note.) - H. C.]
[12] Vambery makes Ong an Uighur word, signifying "right." [Palladius
(l.c. 23) says: "The consonance of the names of Wang-Khan and Wang-Ku
(Ung-Khan and Ongu - Ongot of Rashiduddin, a Turkish Tribe) led to the
confusion regarding the tribes and persons, which at M. Polo's time
seems to have been general among the Europeans in China; M. Polo and
Johannes de Monte Corvino transfer the title of Prester John from
Wang-Khan, already perished at that time, to the distinguished family
of Wang-Ku." - H. C.]
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