It Was Then Conspicuous, But Afterwards The Adjoining Trees Shot
Up So Rapidly, That A Dense Wood Covered The Whole Locality, And It Became
Impossible To Identify The Spot.
(Q. R. 117 seqq.; Timk.
I. 115 seqq.,
II. 475-476; San. Setz. 103, 114-115, 108-109; Gaubil, 54; Erd.
444.)
["There are no accurate indications," says Palladius (l.c. pp. 11-13), "in
the documents of the Mongol period on the burial-places of Chingiz Khan
and of the Khans who succeeded him. The Yuan-shi or 'History of the
Mongol Dynasty in China,' in speaking of the burial of the Khans, mentions
only that they used to be conveyed from Peking to the north, to their
common burial-ground in the K'i-lien Valley. This name cannot have
anything in common with the ancient K'i-lien of the Hiung-nu, a hill
situated to the west of the Mongol desert; the K'i-lien of the Mongols
is to be sought more to the east. When Khubilai marched out against Prince
Nayan, and reached the modern Talnor, news was received of the occupation
of the Khan's burial-ground by the rebels. They held out there very long,
which exceedingly afflicted Khubilai [Yuan shi lui pien]; and this goes
to prove that the tombs could not be situated much to the west. Some more
positive information on this subject is found in the diary of the campaign
in Mongolia in 1410, of the Ming Emperor Yung-lo [Pe ching lu]. He
reached the Kerulen at the place where this river, after running south,
takes an easterly direction.
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