ABSTRACT
MENTION has already been made (pp. 85, 101, 103) of the separation of Tukuhun from a younger brother who carried on the administration of the Mujung patrimony. This younger brother's name was Yoglogwe: the father's name was Shifkwi of the River T'u,—the same syllables, it will be noticed, as those employed in the name of the founder of the Toba dynasty (p. 103). Tukuhun said to his younger brother: — "If you get angry " with me because my horses happen to fight with " yours in the friskiness of spring, it is evident that we shall " not live together long without a quarrel, so I shall put a few " thousand miles between us." On this, in spite of his brother's repentant apologies, he moved west to North Shan Si, whence, during the troublous period accompanying the transition from the West (Loh-yang) to the East (Nanking) Tsin dynasty (p. 102), he again took his hordes further west to the region between the T'ao and the Yellow Rivers, just east of Koko-nor: here he founded a dominion which embraced the bleak region of Tsaidam (—depression) and even parts of North Sze Chuen. " Their land had always snow and ice at all four seasons of " the year, except in the 6th and 7th moons, when there were " terrific hail-storms. When it was fine, the wind blew " hurricanes of sand and small stones. There was wheat " [or barley] but no rice. There is a small island in Koko-nor " and every year when the lake is frozen a number of fine "mares are driven onto the island: the foals are collected " the following winter. A number of splendid Persian " mares were obtained by the Tukuhun for this purpose, " and their young obtained great repute for swiftness as
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