Note (10) — 36.—The countries in which I have been, that belong to Tartary.

(10.) “Serucherman.”—The author was well informed in saying that the martyrdom of St. Clement took place here, the Saroukerman of Aboulfeda who had never been in those parts; the “Kersona civitas Clementis” of Rubruquis (Recueil de Voy. et de Mém., etc., iv) and which had been constituted a bishop’s see in 1333.—Bruun.