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.
LXXIV., p. 180, n. 3.
ALANS.
See Notes in new edition of Cathay and the Way thither, III., pp. 179
seq., 248.
The massacre of the Alans took place, according to Chinese sources, at
Chen-ch'ao, not at Ch'ang chau. The Sung general who was in charge of the
city, Hung Fu, after making a faint submission, got the Alans drunk at
night and had them slaughtered. Cf. PELLIOT, Chretiens d'Asie centrale et
d'Extreme-Orient, T'oung Pao, Dec., 1914, p. 641.
LXXVI., pp. 184-5.
VUJU, VUGHIN, CHANGAN.
The Rev. A.C. Moule has given in the T'oung Pao, July, 1915, pp. 393
seq., the Itinerary between Lin Ngan (Hang Chau) and Shang Tu, followed by
the Sung Dynasty officials who accompanied their Empress Dowager to the
Court of Kublai after the fall of Hang Chau in 1276; the diary was written
by Yen Kwang-ta, a native of Shao King, who was attached to the party.
The Rev. A.C. Moule in his notes writes, p. 411: "The connexion between
Hu-chou and Hang-chou is very intimate, and the north suburb of the
latter, the Hu-shu, was known in Marco Polo's day as the Hu-chou shih. The
identification of Vughin with Wu-chiang is fairly satisfactory, but it is
perhaps worth while to point out that there is a place called Wu chen
about fifty li north of Shih-men; and for Ciangan there is a tempting
place called Ch'ang-an chen just south of Shih-men on a canal which was
often preferred to the T'ang-hsi route until the introduction of steam
boats."
LXXVI., p. 192. "There is one church only [at Kinsay], belonging to the
Nestorian Christians."
It was one of the seven churches built in China by Mar Sarghis, called Ta
p'u hing sze (Great Temple of Universal Success), or Yang yi Hu-mu-la,
near the Tsien k'iao men. Cf. Marco Polo, II., p. 177; VISSIERE, Rev.
du Monde Musulman, March, 1913, p. 8.
LXXVI., p. 193.
KINSAY.
Chinese Atlas in the Magliabecchian Library.
The Rev. A.C. Moule has devoted a long note to this Atlas in the Journ.
R. As. Soc., July, 1919, pp. 393-395. He has come to the conclusion that
the Atlas is no more nor less than the Kuang yue t'u, and that it seems
that Camse stands neither for Ching-shih, as Yule thought, nor for Hang
chau as he, Moule, suggested in 1917, but simply for the province of
Kiangsi.
