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grew, until its limits were very wide asunder. On the west it
conquered the towns of Kua chau, Sha chau, and Su chau
from the Uighurs, while
its
authority apparently extended
over Khamul, Barkul, Urumtsi, Turfan, and the country
.
watered by the river Chaidam and the part
of
the Gobi
situated between China, Khamul and Lake Lob, while south
far Bayan Mountains, which
as
as
wards extended
it the
p.
separated from Tibet (Nouv. Journ. Asiat. vol. xi.
it 461).
On the east dominated over the country
of
it the Ordus
(Timkofski, Travels), and large part the ancient province
of
a
Shensi, the Yellow River. In the resumé
of
of
far east
of as
as
the Kangmu we are told that after the
history
in
the Hia
Li
and built Hing chau (i.e. Ning hia), where they held their
court, the princes Hia soon found themselves masters
of
of
Yu Ling
In
as
to
Siho (i.e. west
in of
far
as
as
of
no
chau, Hia
chau, She chau, Yen chau, Nan wei chau, Hoei chau. Nine
Hing Ting chau, Hoai chau, Yong
si,
namely,
in
Ho chau,
chau, Leang chau, Kan su, Sha lu, Tsin chau, Kua chau,
Ho wei, -i.e. the river Wei—Si ning chau,
on
and four
in
of
kinds abundance,
in
rice
and wheat (De Mailla, vol. ix. pp. 126–127).
During the Mongol period Tangut was divided into seven
prefectures, thus enumerated by Pauthier:
or
Sachiu
of
(the
the eastern verge the worst part the Sandy
of
of
at
p. of
China
Desert (Yule's Marco Polo, 209); was conquered by
it
of