- E.
[6] This evidently but obscurely describes the Chinese characters; the most
ingenious device ever contrived for the monopoly of knowledge and
office to the learned class, and for arresting the progress of
knowledge and science at a fixed boundary. - E.
[7] From this circumstance, it would appear that Rubruquis had found the
court of the khan in the country of the Eluts, to the south of the
Changai mountains, perhaps about latitude 44 deg. N. and longitude 103 deg.
E, the meridian of the supposed site of Karakum on the Orchon. And it
may be presumed, that the imperial suite was now crossing the Changai
chain towards the north. - E.
[8] Haitho, of whom some account will be found in the succeeding chapter of
this work. - E.
SECTION XXXVII.
Of certain disputes between Rubruquis and the Saracens and Idolaters, at
the Court of Mangu-khan, respecting Religion.
Next day I was brought to the court, and some of the chief secretaries of
the khan came to me, one of whom was a Moal, who is cup-bearer to the khan,
and the rest were Saracens. These men demanded on the part of the khan,
wherefore I had come there? To this I answered, as I had done before, that
I came to Sartach, who sent me to Baatu, and he had ordered me to the khan,
to whom I had nothing to say on the part of any man, unless I should speak
the words of God if he would hear them, for the khan should know best what
Baatu had written.
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