A Village, A Commune) Constituting The Salar Pa-Kun Are
Ka-Tzu, The Oldest And Largest, Said To Have Over 1300 Families Living In
It, Chang-Chia, Nemen, Ch'ing-Shui, Munta, Tsu-Chi, Antasu And Ch'a-Chia.
Besides These Salar Kiun There Are Five Outer (Wai) Kiun:
Ts'a-pa,
Ngan-ssu-to, Hei-ch'eng, Kan-tu and Kargan, inhabited by a few Salar and a
mixed population of Chinese and T'u-ssu:
Each of these wai-wu kiun has,
theoretically, fifteen villages in it. Tradition says that the first Salar
who came to China (from Rum or Turkey) arrived in this valley in the third
year of Hung-wu of the Ming (1370). (Rockhill, Land of the Lamas, Journey;
Grenard, II. p. 457) - H.C.] (Martini; Cathay, 148, 269; Petis de la
Croix, III. 218; Russian paper on the Dungen, see supra, vol. i. p. 291;
Williamson's North China, u.s.; Richthofen's Letters, and MS. Notes.)
NOTE 4. - Mangalai, Kublai's third son, who governed the provinces of
Shen-si and Sze-ch'wan, with the title of Wang or king (supra ch. ix.
note 2), died in 1280, a circumstance which limits the date of Polo's
journey to the west. It seems unlikely that Marco should have remained ten
years ignorant of his death, yet he seems to speak of him as still
governing.
[With reference to the translation of the oldest of the Chinese-Mongol
inscriptions known hitherto (1283) in the name of Ananda, King of Ngan-si,
Professor Deveria (Notes d'Epigraphie Mongolo-Chinoise, p. 9) writes:
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