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two commanders-in chief of the right and left wings respectively, 
three commanders, each with an aide-de-camp, and two inspectors- 
general. Besides pei were—of Viziers ope of Supervisors 
of the Household two, and one prince of the blood in charge 
of the Royal guard. From the capital fi oe Ey to Tangut was 
1721 i, and west to Kangku (Yarkand) inside the Fan country,! 
was 5 000 li. 
58. The country though generally level was rugged ; much 
rain fell, it was cold, and the hills were covered with pines and 
elms. The inhabitants did not sow seed, nor plant trees, but 
engaged in pastoral apm changing their quarters according 
to the it of the pastures. They were very similar in their 
habits to the Hiung Nu, and had many horses, rich men owning 
as many as five thousand. The people are hard, coarse, cruel, 
covetous, and devoid of good faith ; they are addicted to plunder 
and robbery, and neighbouring countries have had to interfere 
to punish them ; even so they are restless of control, and do not 
willingly submit toauthority. On the east they march with the 
Hiung Nu, on the N. W. with K’angku, on the west with Ta 
Yun (Yarkand), on the south with the Dependencies, with whom 
as well as with the Sak country they are on friendly terms. 
hen the Yuehti moved west, they attacked and 
n the king moved 
occupied their lands. Subsequently the Kwenmo of the Wusun 
attacked and defeated the Great Yuehti, whereupon these retired 
to the west and tendered their submission to the Tahia (Tokhars) ; 
the Wusun king occupying their lands, and exercising a con- 
trolling influence. When Chang K’ien came to these regions 
Yuehti in the neighbourhood of Tunhwang, but now that the 
former have grown rich and powerful, they have occupied all 
these eastern territories 
-60. From the en description, we can begin to under- 
stand ees of these ethnic movements referred to by the 
Greek histo. As suggested on folio 11, the real destroyer 
of the fae tekisan kingdom was Euktratidas, but the name 
was according to contemporary practice only the Gree kk rendering 
of his personal name, which there is no reason to doubt was 
really LL. : Surak was the country about the ancient 
Siirac, the Araxes of Herodotus, by the later Greeks corrupted 
to Jaxartes; and the name still survives in the modern local name 
of the oe oe The wider name of these, Nongety was by the Greeks 
4 as : a transforme hdha ; 
‘ughdh y the lind ol the Cakai, pita moderns 
ignorant 3 the f fact that ancient Greek had ssl the e guttural 
1 Fan here can scarcely mean Tibet ; more likely it is the ae 
representative of Fer in aaa 
