1864.] 



Literary Intelligence. 



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LlTERABT INTELLIGENCE. 



The following is an extract from a letter lately received from 

 General A. Cunningham. 



In following up the history of the different races of the Punjab, I 

 have extended the enquiry to the Chinese accounts of the Yue-chi, 

 White Huns and Turks, and I believe that I have succeeded in identi- 

 fying two of the Khakans of the White Huns and one Khakan of 

 the Turks with some of those who are mentioned in western history.. 

 The want of success which had hitherto attended all attempts of this 

 kind has led some ethnologists to doubt the value of the Chinese ac- 

 counts of the Tartar nations but the identifications which I have al- 

 ready made will tend to remove this reproach. Thus At^afSovXos the 

 X°7w °f ^e TovpKot, who received the embassy of the emperor Jus,- 

 tin is beyond all doubt the same as the great Khakan Slia-po-lio of 

 the Turks, whose rule extended to the Caspian. The dates corre- 

 spond ; and so ako do the names, for I take Diza to represent Sha of 

 the Chinese — for which the more correct representative would have 

 been Bza. But just as the cli === ts, of Chatur became Tecro-, so the J 

 or Z=dz became Ai£. The name in fact is the same as Zamol iri 

 ZamoUis, and Zabul in Zabulistan, both of them being only the 

 Scythian appellation of Hercules. 



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