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 Rh Tibetan Turks." Further on again, he tells us: "There are Turks of very diverse races" (de races très diverses); and he proceeds to detail, among others, the Tibetans and the Kalmáks. The names of the remaining tribes he mentions in this passage, are spelled in so unintelligible a manner, that I can recognise none but the Kirghiz and Kipcháks, with whom he thus classes the Tibetans and the Kalmá'ks as, all alike, Turks!

The poet Khusru, in the passage cited above, calls the people he describes, by the name of Tatar, though a little lower down (on the same page) he says they were "Turks of Kai;" while elsewhere, he frequently speaks of the same people as Moghuls. Further, the late Mr. R. B. Shaw has explained, with regard to the word Tájik, that it stands in opposition to Turk, just as Arab stands to Ajam, and thus is not necessarily a race name.

Many other instances might be given of this non-ethnic use of the word Turk, and with them might be included also some relating to a similar employment of the term Tatar. But the above will suffice to make it clear that, though the Moghuls of Moghulistan were often called Turks, during the period including the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, it need