175, 247). So also Chaucer:
"On every trumpe hanging a broad banere Of fine Tartarium."
Again, in the French inventory of the Garde-Meuble of 1353 we find two
pieces of Tartary, one green and the other red, priced at 15 crowns
each. (Flower and Leaf, 211; Dante, Inf. XVII. 17, and Longfellow,
p. 159; Douet d'Arcq, p. 328; Fr.-Michel, Rech. I. 315, II. 166 seqq.)
NOTE 7. - SINDACHU (Sindacui, Suidatui, etc., of the MSS.) is SIUEN-HWA-FU,
called under the Kin Dynasty Siuen-te-chau, more than once besieged and
taken by Chinghiz. It is said to have been a summer residence of the later
Mongol Emperors, and fine parks full of grand trees remain on the western
side. It is still a large town and the capital of a Fu, about 25 miles
south of the Gate on the Great Wall at Chang Kia Kau, which the Mongols
and Russians call Kalgan. There is still a manufacture of felt and woollen
articles here.
[Mr. Rockhill writes to me that this place is noted for the manufacture of
buckskins. - H. C.]
Ydifu has not been identified. But Baron Richthofen saw old mines
north-east of Kalgan, which used to yield argentiferous galena; and
Pumpelly heard of silver-mines near Yuchau, in the same department.
