That
Hulagu is meant, i.e. 'a man from Hulagu's country.'"
LXX., p. 169.
"P'AO."
"Captain Gill's testimony as to the ancient 'guns' used by the Chinese is,
of course (as, in fact, he himself states), second-hand and hearsay. In
Vol. XXIV. of the China Review I have given the name and date of a
General who used p'ao so far back as the seventh century." (E.H. PARKER,
Asiatic Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904, pp. 146-7.)
LXXIV., p. 179 n.
THE ALANS.
According to the Yuen Shi and Deveria, Journ. Asiat., Nov.-Dec., 1896,
432, in 1229 and 1241, when Okkodai's army reached the country of the Aas
(Alans), their chief submitted at once and a body of one thousand Alans
were kept for the private guard of the Great Khan; Mangu enlisted in his
bodyguard half the troops of the Alan Prince, Arslan, whose younger son
Nicholas took a part in the expedition of the Mongols against Karajang (Yun
Nan). This Alan imperial guard was still in existence in 1272, 1286, and
1309, and it was divided into two corps with headquarters in the Ling pei
province (Karakorum). See also Bretschneider, Mediaeval Researches, II.,
pp. 84-90.
The massacre of a body of Christian Alans related by Marco Polo (II., p.
178) is confirmed by Chinese sources.
