That Cranky
Orientalist, Dr. Isaac Jacob Schmidt, Positively Reviles William
Rubruquis, One Of The Most Truthful And Delightful Of Travellers,
And
certainly not inferior to his critic in mother-wit, for adopting this
story, and rebukes Timkowski - not for adopting
It, but for merely telling
us the very interesting fact that the story was still, in 1820, current in
Mongolia. (Schmidt's San. Setz. 376, and Timkowski, I. 147.)
NOTE 2. - Several historians, among others Abulfaraj, represent Chinghiz as
having married a daughter of Aung Khan; and this is current among some of
the mediaeval European writers, such as Vincent of Beauvais. It is also
adopted by Petis de la Croix in his history of Chinghiz, apparently from a
comparatively late Turkish historian; and both D'Herbelot and St. Martin
state the same; but there seems to be no foundation for it in the best
authorities: either Persian or Chinese. (See Abulfaragius, p. 285;
Speculum Historiale, Bk. XXIX. ch. lxix.; Hist. of Genghiz Can, p. 29;
and Golden Horde, pp. 61-62.) But there is a real story at the basis of
Polo's, which seems to be this: About 1202, when Aung Khan and Chinghiz
were still acting in professed alliance, a double union was proposed
between Aung Khan's daughter Jaur Bigi and Chinghiz's son Juji, and
between Chinghiz's daughter Kijin Bigi and Togrul's grandson Kush Buka.
From certain circumstances this union fell through, and this was one of
the circumstances which opened the breach between the two chiefs. There
were, however, several marriages between the families.
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