A former mayor of Xingmeng, kʰuɛi⁴⁴ lai³¹tʰua³¹ 奎来团 has a keen interest in the history of the Khatso people and often gives talks on the subject to different audiences. Typically, the talks are delivered in Chinese from notes also written in Chinese. As part of the documentation project, he agreed to give the talk in Khatso for the first time. The excerpt below discusses the Mongol campaign against the Southern Song, whose defeat led to the founding of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, and the historical contributions made by the latter. Given the topic, the Khatso spoken in this excerpt naturally contains a great many Chinese loanwords.