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great warrior, who, to keep his word, was obliged to 

 give his guest the woman he asked for. But as 

 she was one of Chinghiz- Khan's favourites, on 

 parting with her he gave her a white banner. With 

 this present the Russian and his bride departed 

 for Russia. Where they settled is not known ; ' but,' 

 say the Mongols, ' the white banner of our great 

 sovereign is still in your country.' 



Another and even more interesting tradition 

 about Chinghiz-Khan runs as follows. The ashes of 

 this hero, the Mongols assert, rest in a temple in 

 Southern Ordos in the koshung (banner) of Vang, 

 1 30 miles to the south of Lake Tabasun-nor.^ Here 

 the body of the great warrior is laid in two coffins, 

 one of silver, the other of wood, placed in a yellow 

 silken tent in the centre of the temple ; here too, 

 beside the coffin, lie the arms of Chinghiz-Khan, 

 Some 6 miles from the chief temple another smaller 

 shrine has been built, in which are buried twenty of 

 his nearest relatives. On his death-bed he told 

 them that he would rise again after the lapse of not 

 more than a thousand years, and not less than 800. 

 In Chinghiz- Khan's tomb lies the figure of a man 

 apparently asleep, although no mortal can account 

 for this phenomenon. Every evening a roasted 



' This tradition, however, does not agree with history, according to 

 which the body of Chinghiz-Khan, after his death in 1227 A.D., near the 

 town of Ning-hia, was carried to the north and buried not far from the 

 sources of the Tola and Kerulen. — Ritter's Erdkiinde von Asien. 



Sanang Setzen agrees with the Mahommedan writers in represent- 

 ing that the body of Chinghiz was carried to his native country. It 

 would seem that his tomb was on or beside the Khanola mountain near 

 Urga.— Y. 



