1884.] 



Rev. G. Parker — Notes on " Kashgaria.^ 



191 



Chapter IV, pp. 89-91. " In the 

 year 134 B. C, the Huns, 

 under the leadership of Lao- 

 Khan, marched against the 

 Gets or Yuts (the Chinese 

 Vouei-Tchi), people of Mon- 

 gol origin, who dwelt in the 

 country that at present com- 

 prises the Chinese province of 

 Shan- Si. * * The Ge L ,s,not 

 wishing to become subjects of 

 Lao- Khan, set out to seek for 

 themselves a new place of 

 abode. They then became 

 divided into parties, the first 

 of which moved to the 1ST. E., 

 where it came into collision 

 with the Saks, the inhabitants 

 of Eastern Turkestan. The 

 other party moved in a south- 

 erly direction, crossed the 

 snowy range, and, pouring into 

 the valley of the Indus, laid 

 waste the kingdom founded 

 in India by Alexander of 

 Macedon."* 



Chapter IV, pages 89-91. Sikhs 

 and Jats of the Punjab. Saks 

 and (Gets, Gots, Yuts, Yatts) 

 Chinese (Vonei-tchi.) Shah 

 tin or tim (cheu) ; name of an 

 ancient Tatar people living in 

 Manchuria, previous to our 

 era (later soh.) These people 

 are the ancestors of the Joo- 

 chin or Joochi. 



* " Mons. Hue ( " Souvenir d'un Voy- 

 age dans la Tartarie et le Thibet " ) 

 supposes that the Gats, after crossing 

 the Tian-Shan (which he calls Moosoor), 

 settled on the banks of the Hi. This 

 party, he says, were the Torgots or Tor- 

 gouts. Now the Torgouts, as is known, 

 are a Kalmuck race, the same, in fact, 

 as that which still wanders over the 

 valley of the Hi, but chiefly in the 

 valleys of the Koongas and of the Yul- 

 dus. In like manner, Mons. Hue sup- 

 poses that that portion of the Gets, which 

 moved into the valley of the Indus, 

 there encountered a Bactrian race, and, 

 after struggling with it for a long time, 

 finally established itself in Bactrian a. 

 This portion of the Gets, in the opinion 



