[131] Compare Rémusat (_Nouveaux Mélanges_, Tome II., p. 102), who has compiled a brief life of their leader Ubusha. De Quincey’s essay, _The Flight of a Tartar Tribe_. Ritter, _Asien_, Bd. V. pp. 531-583: _Welthistorischer Einfluss des chinesischen Reichs auf Central- und West-Asien_. [132] _Chinese Repository_, Vol. V., pp. 267, 316, 351, etc.; Vol. IX., p. 113. _Penny Cyclopædia_, _Art._ SONGARIA. Boulger, _Russia and England in Central Asia_, 2 Vols., London, 1879. Schuyler, _Turkistan_, 2 vols., N. Y., 1877. Petermann’s _Mittheilungen_, Appendices XLII. and XLIII., 1875. [133] This derivation is explained somewhat differently in Rémusat, _Nouveaux Mélanges_, Tome I., p. 190. [134] To these Ritter adds the names of Wei, Dzang, Nga-ri, Kham, Bhodi, Peu-u-Tsang, Si-Dzang, Thupho, Tobbat, Töböt, Tübet, Tibet, and Barantola, as all applying to this country. _Asien_, Bd. III., S. 174-183. [135] See Rémusat, _Nouveaux Mélanges_, I., p. 190, for notices of tribes anciently inhabiting this district and Bokhara. Compare also Heeren (_Historical Researches_, Vol. I., pp. 180-186), who gives in brief the accounts of Herodotus and Ctesias. [136] Introduction by Col. Yule, in Gill’s _River of Golden Sand_. [137] Called by Wood _Kash-gow_ (_Journey to the Oxus_, p. 319). _Chauri gau_, _sarlyk_, and _sarlac_, are other names. [138] This cross is mentioned by Marco Polo, _Yule’s ed._, Vol. I., p. 241. [139] Prejevalsky, _Travels in Mongolia_, etc., Vol. I., p. 187. [140] B. H. Hodgson, Notice of the Mammals of Tibet, _Journal As. Soc. of Bengal_, Vol. XI., pp. 275 ff.; also _ib._ Vols. XVI., p. 763, XIX., p. 466, and XXVI., No. 3, 1857. Abbé Armand David, Notes sur quelques oiseaux de Thibet, _Nouv. Arch. du Museum, Bull._, V. 1869, p. 33; _ib._ _Bull._, VI., pp. 19 and 33. _Bull._, VIII., 1872, pp. 3-128, IX., pp. 15-48, X., pp. 3-82. _Recherches pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des mammifères comprennant des considérations sur la classification de ces animaux, etc., des études sur la faune de la Chine et du Tibet oriental_, par MM. Milne-Edwards, etc., 2 vols. Paris, 1868-74. [141] Klaproth, _Description du Tubet_, p. 246. [142] _Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa._ Edited by C. R. Markham. London, 1876, p. 265. [143] Compare, for further discussion of this subject, Timkowski’s _Mission to Peking_, London, 1827, Vol. II., p. 349. Wilson’s _Abode of Snow_, p. 329. [144] _Essay towards a Dictionary, Tibetan and English. A Grammar of the Tibetan Language in English._ Calcutta, 1834. [145] _Essays on the Language, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet_, etc. London, 1874. [146] Rémusat, _Observations sur l’Histoire des Mongols orienteaux de Sanang Setsen_, Paris, l’an 8. _Ssanang Ssetsen, Geschichte der Mongolen_, Uebers., von. J. J. Schmidt, Petersb., 1829. [147] Rémusat relates the story of his origin, _Mélanges Posthumes_, p. 400. [148] Klaproth, _Description du Tubet_.