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Rev. G. Parker — Notes on " Kashgaria' 



[Dec, 



" The Gets, who poured into Eas- 

 tern Turkestan, in some mea- 

 sure allied themselves with 

 the Saks and the Yats or 

 Yuks, but they drove the bulk 

 of these people to the S. and 

 W." 



" After the inroad of the Huns into 

 Eastern Turkestan, the in- 

 habitants of that country, the 

 Gets and the remaining Saks, 

 moved in advance of their 

 conquerors, partly towards the 

 west, and partly towards the 

 south, in the direction of 

 Kabul and Kashmir."* 



of Mons. Hue, was called by the Greeks 

 the Indoskifs." 



* Dr. Bellew ("Kashmir and Kash- 

 gar, 1875 " ) draws some very learned 

 conclusions iu support of his ideas as to 

 the movement of the Safes, and after 

 them of the Gets (Qots) and Tuts, who 

 were driven by the Huns or Uigurs from 

 Eastern Turkistan, partly towards the 

 west into Europe, and partly towards 

 the south to Kabul, Kashmir and India. 

 He says, that in Europe traces of these 

 peoples are preserved under many names 

 such as SaTcsonia, Yutlandia, and Got 

 landia ; that the names of the settle 

 ments which they abandoned in Kash 

 garia are repeated in the south ; thus 

 Kazi or Benares (Kazigar, Kashgar) 

 Hari or Herat (Hari-Jcend, Yarkend) 

 Koocha or Koochar (Kachar), Koorlia 

 (Kelya), Kitan (the ruins known under 

 the name of Khotan). Furthermore 

 Bellew says that the country, known in 

 the time of Timur and now as Kashgaria, 

 was called Yatta. Lastly, he supposes 

 that the race of Yatts or Jats, who now 

 dwell in the Punjab, are descended from 

 those exiles from Kashgaria who left it 

 at the time when that country bore the 

 name of Yatta." 



sok. (shot)-leh. The name 

 of an ancient kingdom at the 

 time of Han dynasty in the 

 country of Kachgar, see Kash- 

 garia, p. 118 (IV) modern 

 pronunciation soo-le. 



sat (sah-tat) An ancient 

 name of Yarkand. See Klap- 

 roth. 



