Contact Admin. Search the history of over billion web pages on the Internet. It is a survival from the geography of Asia before international boundaries were determined as they now stand. The name Tatar or Tartar has been used of all the barbarian hordes that in suc- cessive waves broke through the barriers of Central Asia to harry both the West and the remoter East. The whole empire of Jen- ghis Khan was Tartary. Different portions of it ruled by his descendants were likewise called Tartary.
The name Tatar or Tartar, above all other words, is a link between the geography and history of Cen- tral Asia. All I need say here is that Moses is the other name of Li Pao-shun, who although a servant earning wages was through- out the journey rather friend than servant.
Within a few days after hearing from me, she started out to travel alone through Siberia to join me, and succeeded in doing so after a journey so difficult and uncertain that it required far more enterprise and hardihood than a man would need to travel through Mongolia.
I have not said anything about her experiences at Kuei-hua, where we had parted when I set out into Mongolia, and have given only the barest sketch of her journey through Siberia, with its culminating seventeen days by sled across four hundred miles of snow, be- cause she has described some of these things herself, 1 and will describe them all.
When we had met at Chuguchak we turned once more into Chinese Central Asia and traveled for eight months by routes of trade and routes of nomadic migration through High Tartary ; for in this part of the journey, as in Mongolia, my chief interest was in a comparison of the routes that are now used with those anciently in use.
