History of the Mongols from the 9th to 19th Century Part II. The So-called Tartars of Russia and Central Asia

Excerpt from History of the Mongols, From the 9th to the 19th Century, Vol. 2

In the spelling of the names I have had even greater difficulty than before. It is a peculiarity of the Turkish dialects that familiar proper names assume different forms among them, and that the names which good Muhammedans give their children from the Koran become distorted in different ways by the Tartars of Kazan, by the Kazaks, etc., etc., and, therefore, add another difficulty to the usual sources of embarrassment in regard to Eastern names. With every deference to the arguments I have seen on this subject, the difficulty remains at present insoluble, and our way must be a compromise too often an inconsistent compromise. This I know has been the case with me. I can only hope that some reasonable solution may sometime be forthcoming, and that in the following pages, bristling with proper names, that this frailty has not caused any serious errors of statements of fact.

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