1884.] 



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5. Notes on " Kashgaria* — By Rev. Geo. Parker, of the China Inland 



Mission, Shanghai. 

 References. 

 Chapter I, page 21. " For instance, 



there are the Khotan-Darya, 

 the Yarkend- Darya, the Kash- 

 gar-Darya, the Aksu-Darya, 

 the Koocha-Darya, the Haidoo- 

 Gola." 



Note 2. " Otherwise called the 

 Hoidwin-Kooya. This river 

 passes under Fort Kara-Shar, 

 and hence was formerly wrong- 

 ly called the Karashar- Darya." 



Chapter II, page 49 note. "Mr. 

 Shaw says " A tang ah, or 

 tenga, consists of 25 small 

 copper " coins " (of Chinese 

 make with square holes through 

 them) called dah-chan, each of 

 which is worth two jpul (im- 

 aginary coin)." # # # 



41 The Khotan tangah consists of 

 50 copper shu-chan, which are 

 only slightly smaller than the 

 Yarkend dah-chan." 



Criticisms. 

 Chapter I, page 21 last line and 

 note 2. Is not Karashar- 

 Darya the Turkish and Hai- 

 doo-Gola (Haidwin-Kooya) the 

 local Kalmuk-Mongol name of 

 the river \ 



Chapter II, page 49 note 

 chan " "dahchan " 

 Chinese words, sian chien, 

 small coins, and ta chien, large 



" Shu- 

 are the 



coins. 



Chapter II, page 51 "Doolans." 

 They sometimes call them- 

 selves Mogols." In wegt 

 Kansu is a Mongol people 

 called " Tu-reu" (aborigines) 

 by the Chinese. My collea- 

 gue in a communication to 

 "China's Millions" says he 



* Eastern or Chinese Turkistan : a 

 historical and geographical sketch of the 

 country : its military strength, industries 

 and trade by A. N. Kuropatkin, Colonel 

 on the General Staff of the Imperial 

 Russian Army &c, translated from the 

 Russian by Major W. E. Gowan. Cal- 

 cutta ; Thacker, Spink and Co., 1882. 



