[Footnote 17: D'Herbelot, p. 801. Yet after the fortune of
his posterity, Seljuk became the thirty-fourth in lineal
descent from the great Afrasiab, emperor of Touran, (p.
800.) The Tartar pedigree of the house of Zingis gave a
different cast to flattery and fable; and the historian
Mirkhond derives the Seljukides from Alankavah, the virgin
mother, (p. 801, col. 2.) If they be the same as the Zalzuts
of Abulghazi Bahadur Kahn, (Hist. Genealogique, p. 148,) we
quote in their favor the most weighty evidence of a Tartar
prince himself, the descendant of Zingis, Alankavah, or
Alancu, and Oguz Khan.]