kansuh

name

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of Gansu.

   “Round Tsing-hae or Kokonor dwell some small tribes of Hoshoits, Choros, Khoits, Tourgouths, and Kalkas, divided into twenty-nine standards. These are governed by a Tseangkeun or General, who resides at Se-ning-foo in Kansuh.”

   “Ush Turfan, New Turfan, is a small town on the road from Kashgar to Aksu, and is not to be confounded with the better known Turfan which is situated in the far east on the highway to Kansuh.”

   “Kansuh is bounded on the East and South by the provinces of Shensi and Szechuen respectively, the trackless desert is its great Northern neighbor, the Southwest adjoins Outer Tibet, and the vast Northwest was formed into a separate province not long ago, and is called the New Dominion. . . . Kansuh is one of the highways to the "Great Closed Land," hence an important factor as a stepping-stone in the evangelization of its barbarous hordes.”