Mr. Davids Notices of Western Tartary. 201 



Kih-shih-kb-urh q^ 'f-j* f^ -^ Cashgar, or Kaush-kaur ; concerning 



which Mr. Elphinstone remarks thus : " The country of Kaushkaur must 

 " be carefully distinguished from Cashgar near Yarkand, in Chinese 

 " Tartary. I have endeavoured to mark the difference by retaining the 

 " spelling of our own maps for the first place, and giving that which is 

 " commonest in Afghanistan for the other ; though, in fact, I have heard 

 " both called indiscriminately Kaushkaur, Kaushghur, and Kaushgaur. 

 " We found that the nearest Kaushkaur was an extensive but mountainous 

 <' and ill-inhabited country, lying to the west of Budukshan, from which it 

 " was divided by Belut Tagh, having Little Thibet on the east, the Pamere 

 " on the north, and the ridge of Hindu Cush on the south. The country 

 " is high and cold : the inhabitants live chiefly in tents, though there are 

 " some towns. They belong to a nation called Cobi, of the origin of 

 " which I know nothing but what is suggested by the resemblance of their 

 " name to that of an extensive tract in Chinese Tartary."* 



Ye-urJukeang ^ ■''^ ^^ Yarkand. The river of Yarkand is described 



in the Chinese map as rising in the ^ ^ Tsung-ling, " Onion or Leek 

 Mountains," alluded to in INI. L'Amiot's notes above. 



Poo-loo-tih(f) ^ 4^ Bourouts, a pastoral tribe on the western border of 

 Chinese Turkistan. 



Hb-sa-Mh ^K, [^ ^ Kuzzauks, mentioned by Mr. Elphinstone as 



" rude and pastoral nations," Cossacks. Not long ago the Emperor, in 



one of the Peking Gazettes,t complained of their plundering inroads in 



quest of cattle. This levying of " blackmail " seems to give rise to 



frequent contests on a barbarous and ill-defined frontier. 



I have lately perused the travels of the Russian mission through Mongolia 



to China, by M. Timkowski, a work which contains much new and useful 



information relating to the subject of these notices. 



J. F. Davis. 

 Canton, November 2, 1827. 



• Called by the Chinese J^ ■^^ ^^ Ta-ko-peih, " Great Cobi." 



\ Tlie Chinese character, pronounced Poo, may be seen in Dr. Morrison's Chinese 

 Dictionary, No. 8661 ; or in De Guignes' Chinese Dictionary, No. 2407. 

 X See the first volume of these Transactions, page 408. 



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