Prof. Pelliot accepts as a Mongol plural Tangut, but remarks that it is
very ancient, as Tangut is already to be found in the Orkhon
inscriptions. At the time of Chingiz, Tangut was a singular in Mongol,
and Tangu is nowhere to be found.
XL., p. 206.
The Tangutans are descendants of the Tang-tu-chueh; it must be understood
that they are descendants of T'u Kiueh of the T'ang Period. (PELLIOT.)
Lines 7 and 8 from the foot of the page: instead of T'ung hoang, read Tun
hoang; Kiu-kaan, read Tsiu tsuean.
XL., p. 207, note 2. The "peculiar language" is si-hia (PELLIOT).
XLI., pp. 210, 212, n. 3.
THE PROVINCE OF CAMUL.
See on the discreditable custom of the people of Qamul, a long note in the
second edition of Cathay, I., pp. 249-250.
XLI., p. 211.
Prof. Parker remarks (Asiatic Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904, p. 142) that:
"The Chinese (Manchu) agent at Urga has not (nor, I believe, ever had) any
control over the Little Bucharia Cities. Moreover, since the reconquest of
Little Bucharia in 1877-1878, the whole of those cities have been placed
under the Governor of the New Territory (Kan Suh Sin-kiang Sun-fu), whose
capital is at Urumtsi. The native Mohammedan Princes of Hami have still
left to them a certain amount of home rule, and so lately as 1902 a decree
appointing the rotation of their visits to Peking was issued.
