Baber's Suggestion Of The Chan-Tui Tribe Of Tibetans Is Quite
Obsolete, Although Baber Was One Of The First To Explore The Region In
Person.
A petty tribe like the Chan-tui could never have given name to
Caindu; besides, both initials and finals are impossible, and the
Chan-tui have never lived there.
I have myself met Si-fan chiefs at
Peking; they may be described roughly as Tibetans not under the Tibetan
Government. The T'u-fan, T'u-po, or Tubot, were the Tibetans under Tibetan
rule, and they are now usually styled 'Si-tsang' by the Chinese. Yaci
[Ya-ch'ih, Ya-ch'i] is frequently mentioned in the Yuean-shi, and the
whole of Deveria's quotation given by Cordier on p. 72 appears there [chap.
121, p. 5], besides a great deal more to the point, without any necessity
for consulting the Lei pien. Cowries, under the name of pa-tsz, are
mentioned in both Mongol and Ming history as being in use for money in Siam
and Yung-ch'ang [Vociam]. The porcelain coins which, as M. Cordier quotes
from me on p. 74, I myself saw current in the Shan States or Siam about ten
years ago, were of white China, with a blue figure, and about the size of a
Keating's cough lozenge, but thicker. As neither form of the character pa
appears in any dictionary, it is probably a foreign word only locally
understood. Regarding the origin of the name Yung-ch'ang, the discussions
upon p. 105 are no longer necessary; in the eleventh moon of 1272 [say
about January 1, 1273] Kublai 'presented the name Yung-ch'ang to the new
city built by Prince Chi-pi T'ie-mu-r.'"
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