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 | | (HAITHON, HETHUM), king of Little Armenia or Cilicia from 1224 to 1269,- traveller in western and central Asia, Mongolia, andc., was the son. |
 | | From Talas Hayton made a detour to the north-west to meet another Mongol prince, Sartach the son of Batu; after which he ascended the valley of the Syr Dana, crossed ifito Trans-Oxiana, visited Samarkand and Bokhara, and passed the Oxus apparently near Charjui. |
 | | The narrative of this journey, which was written by a member of the kings suite, one Kirakos of Gandsak (the modern Elizavetpol), concludes with some interesting references to Buddhist tenets, to Chinese habits, to various monstrous races and to certain women endowed with reason dwelling beyond Cathay. |
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