Mêdjēt had taken Shyal home he learnt from him that he was his younger brother (because you see their father was a clump of flour). Then Guigêr Mêdjēt with Shyal returned to their old nomad villages (Ulus), that is the Ulus[1] of Eruigu Uidzil Khan. Then they found that the nation had fallen into misery, because Ulan-Nēdun Shumusên Ukhuir, Hama Khan ate ten men a day. Guigêr Mêdjēt and Shyal slew Ukhuir Hama Khan (or Ukhuir Vam Khan) and restored their Ulus (Tillages). After this Guigêr Mêdjēt became Khan of four Khanites and married Etozēlkh Tēnkēl Urun Katun.[2]
In conclusion the narrator stated that this story (Ulguir) was first recounted by one of the thirty- two wooden men who served at the feet of the table of the exhumed Ardjē Burdjē Khan in the place called Tobtsuik to to goi.[3]
10. Tain Tērkhēn.
According to the account of the Gêtsēl Djorkē (who was a Khalka[4] man of the Barga clan from the mouths of the Orkhon river[5]), one of the affluents of the Etyn Gol[6] (pronounced by Djorkē the Uig) is called Arkhuin-borol. There there is a rock shaped like a man: it is the Tain Tērkhēn; near it is a monastery in which live many Lhamas (Buddhist monks).
According to another account Tain Tērkhēn is to be found at the guard-station Uilgên.[7] Tain Tērkhēn was a Bo (Shaman[8]) of the time of Genghis Khan; he carried off the Khan's wife; hid her in a cave which he blocked with stones. Genghis Khan for a long
- ↑ Ula in Central Asian nomenclature.
- ↑ Catun, lady, woman. (Potanin.)
- ↑ Ta pu chi ke to lo kai, or Dabuchik Doroga, is on the Russo-Chinese frontier.
- ↑ Khalka, Mongol, not Turcoman. The Kirghis are Turcomen.
- ↑ The Amur river divided into the Orkhon and Sheika near the town of Nertunsk.
- ↑ Gol, river.
- ↑ Uilgên, on Russo-Chinese frontier.
- ↑ Shaman, nature worshipper non-Buddhist religion. The Buddhist call the Shamans sorcerers.
