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Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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eir mixt blood. Weshall see hereafter that there is a Tartar term Arghiln, applied to fair children born ofa Mongol mother and white father ; it is possible that there may have been a correlativeword like Karaun (from Kara, black) applied to dark children born of Mongol fatherand black mother, and that this led Marco to a false theory. 102 MARCO POLO Book I. (Major Sykes (Persia) devotes a chapter (xxiv.) to The Karwdn Expedition inwhich he says : Is it not possible that the Karwanis are the Caraonas of MarcoPolo ? They are distinct from the surrounding Baluchis, and pay no tribute.—H. C.J Let us turn now to the name of Nogodar. Contemporaneously with the Karaunahswe have frequent mention of predatory bands known as Nigudaris, who seem to bedistinguished from the Karaunahs, but had a like character for truculence. Theirheadquarters were about Sijistan, and Quatremere seems disposed to look upon themas a tribe indigenous in that quarter. Hammer says they were originally the troops of
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Portrait of a Hazara. Prince Nigudar, grandson of Chaghatai, and that they were a rabble of all sorts,Mongols, Turkmans, Kurds, Shiils, and what not. We hear of their revolts anddisorders down to 1319, under which date Mirkhond says that there had been one-and-twenty fights with them in four years. Again we hear of them in 1336 aboutHerat, whilst in Babers time they turn up as Nukdari, fairly established as tribes inthe mountainous tracts of Karmid and Glnir, west of Kabul, and coupled with theHazaras, who still survive both in name and character. Among both, says Baber, there are some who speak the Mongol language. Hazaras and Takdaris (readNukdaris) again occur coupled in the History of Sind. (See Elliot, I. 303-304.)(On the struggle against Timur of Toumen, veteran chief of the Nikoudrians (1383-84),see Major David Prices Maliommedan History, London, 1821, vol. iii. pp. 47-49,H. C. ) In maps of the 17th century, as of Hondius and Blaeuw, we find the moun-tains north of Kabul termed

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