[696] It still persists, however, as a tribal designation both amongst the Kirghiz and Uzbegs, and in 1885 Potanin visited the _Yegurs_ of the Edzin-gol valley in south-east Mongolia, said to be the last surviving representatives of the Uigur nation (H. Schott, "Zur Uigurenfrage," in _Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss._, Berlin, 1873, pp. 101-21). [697] Ch. de Ujfalvy, _Les Aryens au Nord et au Sud de l'Hindou-Kouch_, p. 28. [698] "Notes on the Physical Anthropology of Chinese Turkestan and the Pamirs," _Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst._ XLII. 1912. [699] "The Uzi of the Greeks are the Gozz [Ghuz] of the Orientals. They appear on the Danube and the Volga, in Armenia, Syria, and Chorasan, and their name seems to have been extended to the whole Turkoman [Turki] race" [by the Arab writers]; Gibbon, Ch. LVII. [700] Who take their name from a mythical Uz-beg, "Prince Uz" (_beg_ in Turki = a chief, or hereditary ruler). [701] Both of these take their name, not from mythical but from historical chiefs:--_Kazan Khan_ of the Volga, "the rival of Cyrus and Alexander," who was however of the house of Jenghiz, consequently not a Turk, like most of his subjects, but a true Mongol (_ob._ 1304); and _Noga_, the ally and champion of Michael Palaeologus against the Mongols marching under the terrible Holagu almost to the shores of the Bosporus. [702] Gibbon, Chap. LVII. By the "Turkish nation" is here to be understood the western section only. The Turks of Mawar-en-Nahar and Kashgaria (Eastern Turkestan) had been brought under the influences of Islam by the first Arab invaders from Persia two centuries earlier. [703] "Die Stellung der Tuerken in Europa," in _Geogr. Zeitschrift_, Leipzig, 1897, Part 5, p. 250 sq. [704] "Ethnographic Researches," edited by N. E. Vasilofsky for the _Imperial Geogr. Soc._ 1896, quoted in _Nature_, Dec. 3, 1896, p. 97. [705] A. Erman, _Reise um die Erde_, 1835, Vol. III. p. 51. [706] Quoted by Peschel, _Races of Man_, p. 383. [707] M. Balkashin in _Izvestia Russ. Geogr. Soc._, April, 1883. [708] _Kara_ = "Black," with reference to the colour of their round felt tents. [709] On the obscure relations of these Hordes to the Kara-Kirghiz and prehistoric Usuns some light has been thrown by the investigations of N. A. Aristov, a summary of whose conclusions is given by A. Ivanovski in _Centralblatt fuer Anthropologie_, etc., 1896, p. 47.