[7] Continuatio Ann.  Admutensium, in Pertz, Scriptores, IX. 580.

[8] E.g. ii. 42.

[9] St. Martin, Mem. sur l’Armenie, II. 77.

[10] ["The Keraits,” says Mr. Rockhill (Rubruck, 111, note), “lived on
    the Orkhon and the Tula, south-east of Lake Baikal; Abulfaraj relates
    their conversion to Christianity in 1007 by the Nestorian Bishop of
    Merv.  Rashideddin, however, says their conversion took place in the
    time of Chingis Khan. (D’Ohsson, I. 48; Chabot, Mar Jabalaha, III.
    14.) D’Avezac (536) identifies, with some plausibility, I think, the
    Keraits with the Ki-le (or T’ieh-le) of the early Chinese annals. 
    The name K’i-le was applied in the 3rd century A.D. to all the
    Turkish tribes, such as the Hui-hu (Uigurs), Kieh-Ku (Kirghiz)
    Alans, etc., and they are said to be the same as the Kao-ch’e, from
    whom descended the Cangle of Rubruck. (T’ang shu, Bk. 217, i.;
    Ma Tuan-lin, Bk. 344, 9, Bk. 347, 4.) As to the Merkits, or
    Merkites, they were a nomadic people of Turkish stock, with a possible
    infusion of Mongol blood.  They are called by Mohammedan writers
    Uduyut, and were divided into four tribes.  They lived on the Lower
    Selinga and its feeders. (D’Ohsson, i. 54; Howorth, History, I.,
    pt. i. 22, 698.)”—­H.  C.]

[11] [Onan Kerule is “the country watered by the Orkhon and Kerulun
    Rivers, i.e. the country to the south and south-east of Lake Baikal. 
    The headquarters (ya-chang) of the principal chief of the Uigurs in
    the eighth century was 500 li (about 165 miles) south-west of the
    confluence of the Wen-Kun ho (Orkhon) and the Tu-lo ho (Tura).  Its
    ruins, sometimes, but wrongly, confounded with those of the Mongol
    city of Karakorum, some 20 miles from it, built in 1235 by Ogodai, are
    now known by the name of Kara Balgasun, ‘Black City.’” [See p. 228.]
    The name Onankerule seems to be taken from the form Onan-ou-
    Keloran, which occurs in Mohammedan writers. (Quatremere, 115 et
    seq.; see also T’ang shu, Bk. 43b; Rockhill, Rubruck, 116,
    note.)—­H.  C.]

[12] Vambery makes Ong an Uighur word, signifying “right.” [Palladius
    (l.c. 23) says:  “The consonance of the names of Wang-Khan and Wang-Ku
    (Ung-Khan and Ongu—­Ongot of Rashiduddin, a Turkish Tribe) led to the
    confusion regarding the tribes and persons, which at M. Polo’s time
    seems to have been general among the Europeans in China; M. Polo and
    Johannes de Monte Corvino transfer the title of Prester John from
    Wang-Khan, already perished at that time, to the distinguished family
    of Wang-Ku.”—­H.  C.]