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CHAP. II. BATTLES BETWEEN CAIDU AND THE KAAN
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bordering the south slopes of the Thian Shan as far east as Kara Khoja, also the valley of the Talas River, and the country north of the Thian Shan from Lake Balkhash eastward to the vicinity of Barkul, and in the further north the country between the Upper Yenisei and the Irtish.
Kaidu died in 1301 at a very great age. He had taken part, it was said, in 41 pitched battles. He left 14 sons (some accounts say 40), of whom the eldest, called Shabar, succeeded him. He joined Dua Khan of Chaghatai in making submission to Teimur Kaan, the successor of Kúblái ; but before long, on a quarrel occurring between the two former, Dua seized the territory of Shabar, and as far as I can learn no more is heard, of the house of Kaidu. Vámbéry seems to make the Khans of Khokand to be of the stock of Kaidu ; but whether they claim descent from Yúnus Khán, as he says, or from a son of Baber left behind in his flight from Ferghána, as Pandit Manphúl states, the genealogy would be from Chaghatai, not from Kaidu.
NOTE 2. ----` ` To the N.N.W. a desert of 40 days' extent divides the states of Kúblái from those of Kaidu and Dua. This frontier extends for 3o days' journey from east to west. From point to point," etc. ; see continuation of this quotation from Rashíduddín, in Vol. I. p. 214.
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CHAPTER II.
OF CERTAIN BATTLES THAT WERE FOUGHT BY KING CAIDU AGAINST THE ARMIES OF HIS UNCLE THE GREAT KAAN.
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Now it came to pass in the year of Christ's incarnation,
1266, that this King Caidu and another prince called
YESUDAR, who was his cousin, assembled a great force
and made an expedition to attack two of the Great
Kaan's Barons who held lands under the Great Kaan,
but were Caidu's own kinsmen, for they were sons of
Chagatai who was a baptized Christian, and own brother
to the Great Kaan ; one of them was called CHIBAI, and
the other CHIBAN.'
Caidu with all his host, amounting to 6o,000 horse,
engaged the Kaan's two Barons, those cousins of his,
who had also a great force amounting to more than
6o,000 horsemen, and there was a great battle. In the
end the Barons were beaten, and Caidu and his people
won the day. Great numbers were slain on both sides,
but the two brother Barons escaped, thanks to their
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