Note {1} — Chapter XXIV

Note 1.—✛The Comanians, a people of Turkish race, the Polovtzi [or “Dwellers of the Plain” of Nestor, the Russian Annalist] of the old Russians, were one of the chief nations occupying the plains on the north of the Black Sea and eastward to the Caspian, previous to the Mongol invasion. Rubruquis makes them identical with the Kipchak, whose name is generally attached to those plains by Oriental writers, but Hammer disputes this. [See a note, pp. 92–93 of Rockhill’s Rubruck.—H. C.]