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speak a language of their own, which is a medley of Mongol, 

 Chinese, and East-Tibetan. By their own account they 

 are of Tartar origin ; and if it be so it may be said that 

 they have exceedingly well preserved the savage and inde- 

 pendent character of their forefathers, whilst the manners 

 of the present people of Mongolia have been singularly 

 modified and softened. 



' Although subject to the Emperor of China, the Dchia- 

 hours are under the immediate government of a kind of 

 hereditary sovereign belonging to their own tribe, and 

 bearing the title of Toii-sse! ' — [Y.] 



SI LING AND TON KIR. 

 Pp. 107 and 119. 



What the footnote at p. 107 refers to is this :— 



Certain textures of shawl-wool, or resembling it, are 

 imported from the eastward into Kashmir and Ladak 

 under the name of SUing. And certain other manufactures 

 were found by Mr. R. B. Shaw in the markets of Kashgar, 

 which were stated to come from a region called Zilni. 

 Knowing from P. della Penna, and other sources, that 

 Sining-fu was called by the Tibetans Ziliiig or Jiling, ami 

 by the Mongols Scling Khoto, it seemed to me almost 

 certain that both the S4ing of Ladak and the Zih>i of 

 Kashgar, referred to the same place. Mr. Shaw doubted, 

 from the particulars given him, if Zilm could be so far 

 east ; but I see by a recent letter that he now accepts the 

 identity.^ 



In the footnote at p. r 19, it is indicated that the Tonkir 

 of the Russian traveller is Hue's Taiig-kcu-cul. The latter 

 calls it 'a small city, but very populous, and with very 



1 ii. 35-36. 



^ In the Philos. Transactions, vol. Ixvii. pt. ii. p. 482, in a letter 

 from Mr. Stewart to Sir John Pringlc, regarding Bogle's mission, 

 dated March 20, 1777, mention is made oi Scling, as a place to which 

 the caravans traded. It is also probably the place 'on the river 

 Sullum,' mentioned by Turner (see Embassy, p. 274). 



