. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. tino- an end to their own existence, which is not even now an uncom-mon practice among the Chinese, under any misfortune from which there isno other hope of escape. The Tartar prince, who was called King, or Khanof the Kin, fixed his residence at Honan, so that there were two distinctkino-doms in China; the Tartars keeping possession of the northern and theChinese of the southern provinces, where the court was sometimes held atNanking, and sometimes at Hang-cbow-fou, the ancient capital.
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. tino- an end to their own existence, which is not even now an uncom-mon practice among the Chinese, under any misfortune from which there isno other hope of escape. The Tartar prince, who was called King, or Khanof the Kin, fixed his residence at Honan, so that there were two distinctkino-doms in China; the Tartars keeping possession of the northern and theChinese of the southern provinces, where the court was sometimes held atNanking, and sometimes at Hang-cbow-fou, the ancient capital. The twosovereigns were equal in power and dominion ; and as the Chinese princeswere desirous of recovering the provinces they had lost, and the invaderswere no less anxious to conquer the rest of the empire, the wars betweenthem w^ere carried on with scarcely any intermission during several longrei-ns, by which the country was reduced to very great distress, when atlength a fresh foe appeared, to whom both parties were obliged to yield, andthus commenced a new and eventful era in the history of Ujrs,^^^ Ziughis Khan. THE FIRST TARTAR CONQUEST. bi CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST TARTAR CONQUEST. ZiNGHis Khan, whose original name was Temudgin, and who was oneof the greatest conquerers that has ever appeared on the face of the earth,either in ancient or modern times, was chief of one of the numerous hordesof Moguls that inhabited the countries to the north of the great wall, extend-ing from Eastern Tartary to Bukharia. They were a wandering people,who had no settled place of abode, but formed their cities of tents, whichthey set up where they they pleased, and carried away with them wheneverthey chose to change their locality. Every tribe had its own chief, butthere was one superior to the rest, who was called the great khan, and tohim the lesser chiefs paid homage and tribute. Some of them were alsotributary to the two great Tartar empires of the Khitan and the Kin — theformer ex
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