The Movement Originated At
Hwachau, Some 60 Miles East Of Si-Ngan Fu, Now Totally Destroyed.
But the
chief seat of the Mahomedans is a place which they call Salar,
identified with Hochau in Kansuh, about 70 miles south-west of Lanchau-fu,
the capital of that province.
[Mr. Rockhill (Land of the Lamas, p. 40)
writes: "Colonel Yule, quoting a Russian work, has it that the word Salar
is used to designate Ho-chou, but this is not absolutely accurate.
Prjevalsky (Mongolia, II. 149) makes the following complicated
statement: 'The Karatangutans outnumber the Mongols in Koko-nor, but their
chief habitations are near the sources of the Yellow River, where they are
called Salirs; they profess the Mohammedan religion, and have rebelled
against China.' I will only remark here that the Salar have absolutely no
connection with the so-called Kara-tangutans, who are Tibetans. In a note
by Archimandrite Palladius, in the same work (II. 70), he attempts to show
a connection between the Salar and a colony of Mohammedans who settled in
Western Kan-Suh in the last century, but the Ming shih (History of the
Ming Dynasty) already makes mention of the Salar, remnants of various
Turkish tribes (Hsi-ch'iang) who had settled in the districts of
Ho-chou, Huang-chou, T'ao-chou, and Min-chou, and who were a source of
endless trouble to the Empire. (See Wei Yuen, Sheng-wu-ki, vii. 35; also
Huang ch'ing shih kung t'u, v. 7.) The Russian traveller, Potanin, found
the Salar living in twenty-four villages, near Hsuen-hua t'ing, on the
south bank of the Yellow River.
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