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Rev. G. Parker — Notes on " Kashgaria' 



[Dec. 



Chapter IV, p. 93. "In Hue's 

 " Souvenir d'un voyage dans la 

 Tartarie et le Thibet," Chap- 

 ter IV, mention is made of 

 a race of Mongols who are 

 called Kalkhas (Khalkhas) . 

 This fact involuntarily leads 

 us to the thought, are they not 

 allied to the Khakes of Djoon- 

 gana, from whom Valikhanoff 

 derives the Kirghiz ? " 



Chapter IV, p. 113. "The sup- 

 position of Mons. Heins that 

 the Doongans and the Uigurs 

 are one and the same race, has 

 evidently no foundation. 

 Apart from the fact that this 

 question has already been 

 settled by modern explorers, 

 I, whilst admitting that the 

 Chinese did deport a portion 

 of the Uigurs into their wes- 

 tern provinces, allow myself 



were of tall stature with light 

 hair, fair complexion and blue 

 eyes. These people were for- 

 merly commingled with the 

 Turkish and Mongol tribes 

 which made them lose their an- 

 cient language in the place of 

 which they had adopted the 

 Turkish dialect. This com- 

 mingling with these tribes has 

 not, however, quite destroyed 

 the characteristic marks of 

 their external appearance ; for 

 one often still sees among the 

 Kirghiz people with red hair 

 and blue or green eyes. 



The Chinese now call them KazaJc. 



The Booroot and Sartzar are per- 

 haps small divisions of the 

 Kazak. The author's thought 

 that the Khakas (older name 

 for Kirghiz) may be the same 

 as the Kalkas-Mongols is far 

 beyond the mark. The Kal- 

 kas are the Mongols of Mon- 

 golia proper, and more numer- 

 ous than either the Buriat of 

 Siberia, Baikal region or Kal- 

 muk of Tian-Shan and Koko- 

 Nor. 



Chapter IV, p. 113. The Doongans 

 are not Uigurs but of Per- 

 sian descent. They came to 

 China, a company of 3,000 

 men, during the Tang Dynasty 

 and settled in the present pro- 

 vinces of Sheust and Kansu in 

 the eighth century. They 

 were not deported to Zungaria 

 last century, but went there, 

 like the Manchu Sibs, Solons 

 and Mongol Tsakhars, as mili- 



