'Liu-P'an-Shan Was Situated On
The Frontiers Of The Churche (Empire Of The Kin), Nangias (Empire Of
The Sung) And Tangut;' Which Statement Is Quite Correct."
We now come to the Mongol tradition, which places the tomb of Chinghiz in
the country of the Ordos, in the great bend of the Yellow River.
Two Belgian missionaries, MM. de Vos and Verlinden, who visited the tomb
of Chinghiz Khan, say that before the Mahomedan invasion, on a hill a few
feet high, there were two courtyards, one in front of the other,
surrounded by palisades. In the second courtyard, there were a building
like a Chinese dwelling-house and six tents. In a double tent are kept the
remains of the bokta (the Holy). The neighbouring tents contained
various precious objects, such as a gold saddle, dishes, drinking-cups, a
tripod, a kettle, and many other utensils, all in solid silver. (Missions
Catholiques, No. 315, 18th June, 1875.) - This periodical gives (p. 293) a
sketch of the tomb of the Conqueror, according to the account of the two
missionaries.
Prjevalsky (Mongolia and Tangut) relates the story of the Khatun Gol
(see supra, p. 245), and says that her tomb is situated at 11 versts
north-east of lake of Dzaidemin Nor, and is called by the Mongols
Tumir-Alku, and by the Chinese Djiou-Djin Fu; one of the legends mentioned
by the Russian traveller gives the Ordo country as the burial-place of
Chinghiz, 200 versts south of lake Dabasun Nor; the remains are kept in two
coffins, one of wood, the other of silver; the Khan prophesied that after
eight or ten centuries he would come to life again and fight the Emperor of
China, and being victorious, would take the Mongols from the Ordos back to
their country of Khalka; Prjevalsky did not see the tomb, nor did Potanin.
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