106-1/2 deg.), and was even
on his dying bed, giving instructions how to meet the Nuechen army at
T'ung-kwan (lat.
34-1/2 deg., long. 110-1/4 deg.), we may assume that the
place of his death was on the Upper Wei River near the frontiers joining
the modern Kan Suh and Shen Si provinces. It is true the Sa-li River
(not stream) is thrice mentioned, and also the Sa-le-chu River, both in
Mongolia; on the other hand, the Sa-li Ouigours are frequently mentioned
as living in West Kan Suh; so that we may take it the word Sali or Sari
was a not uncommon Turkish word. Palladius' identification, of K'i-lien
with 'Kerulen' I am afraid cannot be entertained. The former word
frequently occurs in the second century B.C., and is stated to be a second
Hiung-nu (Turkish) word for 'sky' or 'heaven.' At or about that date the
Kerulen was known to the Chinese as the Lu-kue River, and the geographies
of the present dynasty clearly identify it as such. The T'ien-Shan are
sometimes called the K'i-lien Shan, and the word K'i-lien is otherwise
well established along the line of the Great Wall." (E.H. PARKER, Asiatic
Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904, pp. 136-7.)
Prof. Pelliot informs me that in No. 3 (Sept., 1918) of Vol. III of
Chinese Social and Political Science Review these is an article on the
Discovery of and Investigation concerning the Tomb of Gengis Khan.
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