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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 



THE TALDI. 

 P. 69-70. 



It is obvious that the passage of Palladius which Mr. 

 Morgan has translated in the footnotes bears no very clear 

 reference to the Taldi of Col. Prejevalsky. Mr. Ney Elias 

 remarks on his account of them as follows : — 



' The description of these people, as also the locality in 

 which they occur, corresponds closely w^th Hue's account of 

 the race he calls Dchiahours. The name of Da/dc^ may 

 certainly have suffered in copying or printing, but I can 

 find no approximation to it in any work treating of Western 

 China ; nor, with the exception of Hue's, it must be added, 

 of the Dchiahours either. The only specimen of Dchiahours 

 that I am personally acquainted with is Hue's old servant 

 " Samdadchiemba," who certainly, as regards language, 

 corresponds to Prejevalsky's description of the Daldes."^ 



I transcribe Hue's account, referred to by Mr. Elias : 

 ' The Dchiahours .... occupy the country commonly 

 called Sau-tcliouan — " Three Valleys," — the native district 

 of our camel-driver Samdadchiemba. The Dchiahours 

 have all the rascality and craft of the Chinaman without 

 his civility and polished language ; so they are feared and 

 detested by all their neighbours. When they fancy their 

 rights infringed on it is ahvays with the dagger that they 

 seek redress. Among them the man held in most honour 

 is always the one who has committed most murders. They 



' So it is written in Col. Prejevalsky"s original letters as published 

 in the yournal de St. PetershoKrg. 

 * Proc. Roy. Gcog. Sac, xviii. 84. 



