1884] 



Rev. G. Parker — Notes on " Kashgaria" 



193 



" Those Huns who mingled with 

 the remaining Saks and Gets 

 (Gots) and formed the popu- 

 lation of Turkestan became 

 somewhat changed in later 

 times owing to the inroads of 

 other proples who came with 

 the various Arab conquerors." 



Those Huns who, after continu- 

 ing their movement towards 

 the west, drove from before 

 then the various small tribes 

 of nomads whom they came 

 across in their progress on- 

 wards, began with their assis- 

 tance to make, in the begin- 

 ning of the 4th century, in- 

 roads into the Roman Empire, 

 and in the 5th century to pour 

 into Germany.* In Europe, 



Tot-Tea (ga)-lat (lap) (Tukhara) 

 literally the kingdom of the 

 Yuet-chi (perhaps the Jats of 

 North- Western India), a to- 

 pographical term designating 

 a country of ice and frost (tu- 

 chara), and corresponding to 

 the present Badakshan which 

 Arab geographers still call 

 Tokharestan. 2. An ethno- 

 graphical term used by the 

 Greeks to designate the To- 

 charoi or Indo- Scythians, and 

 likewise by Chinese writers 

 applied to the Tocharoi Tatars, 

 who, driven on hy the Huns 

 (180 B. C.) conquered Trans- 

 Oxiania, destroyed the Bactrian 

 kingdom Tahsia (B. 0. 126) 

 and finally conquered the Pan- 

 jab, Kashmir and the greater 

 part of India. 



Kut (gut) -tele Goths to the north- 

 west of * and to the north- 

 east of the * in the country 

 of the Kirghiz (200 A. D.) 



* " Mons. Hue says, that the Huns, 

 who began, during the year 376, their 

 devastating inroads into the Roman Em- 

 pire, first of all subdued a nomad race 

 that wandered over the country of the 

 Allani (le pays des Alains of Klaproth ; 



* Word i 

 decipherable. 



Chinese character not 



