1208 Hiuan Thsany's Itinerary. [Dec. 



132. Tha mo si thie'i ti, ou Thian pin, ou ejlwetj 

 Hou mi (anciennement pays deTou ho lo), 15 ou ±Hj& 

 1600 li de Test a l'ouest, 4 ou 5 li (sic) du sud 



an nord. Entre deux montagnes, sur le fleuve 

 Fa tsou. 



Les habitants ont des yeux verts, differents de 

 ceux de tous les autres pays. 



Tha mo si thi ei to. — Daghestan ; we have already had £ gh trans- 

 cribed as /♦ m. Thian pin Durbund, pin beng bund as we remarked in 

 Ghorbund ; Durbund lies on the west coast of the Caspian. The Arabic 

 name being t-^jJJlwb Babul abwab. Can some story of Green-eyes be 

 traced to this country. 



133. Che khi ni (2000 li de tour). La capi- U*0^ 

 tale s'appelle Wen ta to. Ce pays est au nord jSj*. 

 des grandes montagnes de Neige. 



Che khi ni. — Cherkes, or Cherkes, the modern Circassia. The r 

 has been absorbed, and the final ze j read as before, nun e> n. 



Julius Von Klaproth visited in 1 808, the Tartar tribes lying on the 

 borders of Russia. He found the Lamian religion to. prevail among all 

 of them ; the priests considering Tebut as the source of their creed — 

 that intercourse was maintained with the parent country by missions. 



He mentions also from an original Mongol work called the " Spring 

 of the Heart," that the earliest traces of this Lamian religion among 

 the Moguls are met with at the time of Zungees Khan, who sent for 

 to his capital, the Lama high priest " to establish a system of religion 

 and unite it with the monarchy," that the Moguls term this date the 

 period of " the first respect for religion." The people of this country, 

 called Circassians by nations of Europe, are named Tscherkessi by the 

 Russians ; but denominate themselves Adegi ; the word Cherkeez is 

 considered Tartar or Mongul, from Cher, a road, and Kez to cut ! ! ! the 

 people who held this position in the days of Strabo being called Ivkoi. 

 The result which I am compelled to adopt by my own readings and 

 identifications is, that the introduction of the Arabic word *$ , 

 Kulu for fort, in Kulu Sumungan : of the word Emam for Iluzurut 

 Emam, a place sacred to some Moslem saint, prove the names used in 

 the Chinese original to be those of an age posterior to the Moslem 



