The Nāṣirī Generations 271.4.2

271.4.2

But why need I mention all this ? Has not Professor Forbes himself discovered not only the place of burial, but even the tomb in which the corpse was enclosed? I wonder he did not discover Tuli’s tomb also, for he was buried there too. In a paper read before the British Association in September, 1876, he asserts [but what are the proofs ?] that it lies "almost a day’s journey from Urga, viz. from twenty to twenty-five miles," and that "the tomb consists of a stone structure which is now level with the ground ; there is a circle of stone ten feet thick, and one hundred yards in diameter, and in the centre of this there is a circle which has once been a covered building, some fifteen yards in diameter," etc., etc. Did not he "discover" an inscription too ? If it is a Mughal tomb, look below ground, not above, seeing what our author and others say with regard to Mughal modes of sepulture. I must say a few words respecting the wives and children of the Chingiz Khan before closing the notice of him, as European writers have rendered the names of them even more unintelligible than those of his four famous sons. He is said to have had 500 Khatuns [wives] and concubines, every one of whom was taken from some tribe or other after he had reduced or conquered it. Some were married to him according to the Mughal rites and customs. and Amirs, saying: "The Chingiz Khan is come. On