ABSTRACT
Chuguchak in the Tarbaghatai, as Dawson assumes (p. 134 n.2), but (as Rockhill, Rubruck, p. 135 n.1, rightly indicated) Kenjek, about which little is known. Mahmiid Kashghari, Diwiin lughat al-Turk, tr. R. Dankoff and]. Kelly, Compendium of the Turkish dialects (Cambridge, Mass., 1982-5), I, 3'57, calling it Kenjek Sengir, mentions it as a town near Taraz (Talas: see below, p. 144 n.4) and situated on the frontier of the Qipchaq.1'he Egyptian author al-"Umari (d. 1349) describes it as one of four towns in the Talas region, each a mere/arsakh (i.e. about 6 km) apart: Lech, Das mongo/ische Weltreich, text p. 30, tr. p. 111, and cf. n.30 at p. 2'52. This raises a problem, however, in that one day after leaving Kenjek Rubruck was told that T alas lay six days' journey to the rear (below, p. 14'5 and n.3). Kenjek and T alas are generally mentioned together by Persian writers: Rashid alIYm, III, ed. Alizade and tr. Arends, text p. 110, tr. p. 72 (ed. K. Jahn, Geschichte der ll!Jiine Abiigii bis Gai~iitii, The Hague, 1957, p. 12); Wa~~af, Tajziyat al-am~iir wa ta~iyat at-a•siir (Bombay, 1853), pp. 68, '517. See Pelliot, Recherches, p. 112.
