22, etc.)
NOTE 2. - Polo's history here is inadmissible. He introduces into the list
of the supreme Kaans Batu, who was only Khan of Kipchak (the Golden
Horde), and Hulaku who was Khan of Persia, whilst he omits Okkodai,
the immediate successor of Chinghiz. It is also remarkable that he uses
the form Alacou here instead of Alaue as elsewhere; nor does he seem to
mean the same person, for he was quite well aware that Alaue was Lord of
the Levant, who sent ambassadors to the Great Khan Cublay, and could not
therefore be one of his predecessors. The real succession ran: 1.
Chinghiz; 2. Okkodai; 3. Kuyuk; 4. Mangku; 5. Kublai.
There are quite as great errors in the history of Haiton, who had probably
greater advantages in this respect than Marco. And I may note that in
Teixeira's abridgment of Mirkhond, Hulaku is made to succeed Mangku Kaan
on the throne of Chinghiz. (Relaciones, p. 338.)
NOTE 3. - The ALTAI here certainly does not mean the Great South Siberian
Range to which the name is now applied. Both Altai and Altun-Khan
appear sometimes to be applied by Sanang Setzen to the Khingan of the
Chinese, or range running immediately north of the Great Wall near Kalgan.
(See ch. lxi. note I.) But in reference to this matter of the burial of
Chinghiz, he describes the place as "the district of Yekeh Utek, between
the shady side of the Altai-Khan and the sunny side of the Kentei-Khan."
Now the Kentei-Khan (khan here meaning "mountain") is near the sources
of the Onon, immediately to the north-east of Urga; and Altai-Khan in this
connection cannot mean the hills near the Great Wall, 500 miles distant.
