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been before mentioned as having invaded Bukhara, where he died in the reign of P. the Amir Said Abul Kasim. This Iylik Mazi, whose early seat was at Uzkand in the province of Farghana, was the first Tartar Prince who brought the Uighûr people together as a nation. And his empire extended from the shores of the Caspian on the west to the Desert of Gobi and the frontiers of China on the east.

Towards the close of his reign, Satuk made an expedition to the borders of Khita,

and established Islam over all the country up to Turfan. Here he became ill, and T.B.K. was conveyed back to Kashghar, where he lay sick a whole year and then died. In his last hours he summoned his friends around him, made his will ; committed his family and government to the charge of Abi l Fattah, the son of Abû Nasr, gave directions for his burial, and exhorted his sons to follow in his own steps, and adhere to the faith of the Prophet, and serve God truly. Then from a tray set before him he took a rose and smelled it, next he took an apple and ate it, and finally he took a

goblet of sharbat and drank it. After this he stood up and repeated the creed, next

he revolved in a circle three times, and sang a Persian couplet to the effect that, " a

drop taken from the ocean makes it none the less. A soul on quitting its body

rends but its covering veil." He then sat down and resigned his life with the close of

day, 430 H.=1037 A.D. He was buried at Mashhad in Alton Artosh or Lower

Artosh, and the funeral was attended by two YPal " Saint," seventy thousand

Alien="learned men" or "clergymen," twenty-two thousand Gkaz "Crescentader,"

and fifteen thousand Awwam-un-nâs=" Common people."

Such, omitting absurdities and miraculous incidents, is the history of the Prince P.

who introduced Islam at Kashghar, as given in the book mentioned at the outset of

the quotation. It further states that his successor, Abul Fatta.h, died three years

later, and gives the following particulars regarding the family of Satuk :-

Hazrat Sultan Satuk Bughra Khan Ghazi left four sons and three daughters. T.B.K.

The former were Hasan Bughra Khan, Husen Bughra Khan, Ynsuf Kadir Khan,

and   . The latter were Nasab Turkan Khanim, Hadya Turkan Khanim,
and Ala NGr Khanim. The last was a lady noted for her beauty, piety, and chastity. Her history briefly is this, and resembles that df Hazrat Miryam=Lady Mary. Ala Nûr Khanim, on reaching the age of maturity, was one night engaged in the worship of God, when the Angel Gabriel came to her and poured a drop of light into her mouth. It produced a feeling of comfort, and for a while she became insensible. After this, one night, she went out at the gate, and, seeing the figure of a tiger, fainted. Some months and days after this again, at the time of the " Friday prayers,"

on the 10th Muharram   H., she gave .birth to a son with ruddy complexion, gazelle
eyes, and sweet voice. The King was wrathful, and the people wondered, saying, "What manner of event is this ?" He ordered an investigation of the mystery, and the divines and priests, the judges and lawyers, the grandees and nobles, all assembled and examined Ala Nûr Khanim. Her explanation was considered satisfactory, and she was pronounced innocent, and the boy, in reference to the apparition she had seen, was named Syad Ali Arslan Khan. He was brought up by his mother, and at the age of seven years betrothed to Toc Bùbù, a daughter of Bughra Khan. She bore him three sons, viz., Muhammad Arslan, Yûsuf Arslan, and Kizil Arslan, and several daughters, one of whom married Syad Jalaluddin, the son of Syad Bahauddin Shami, and the others different Muhammadan divines of note. Hadya Turkan Khanim married Syad Jalaluddin, the son of Syad Alauddin, and bore him three sons and several daughters, from whom proceeded a number of Kashghar, Tashkand, and Samarcand relationships.

Sultan Hasan Bughra Khan, with the title of Hazrat Padshah Ghazi, succeeded his father at Kashghar. In his reign the idolators from Khutan, called also Chinshahr, invaded Kashghar with an army of thirty thousand men, under the leaders Bocta Rashid, Nucta Rashid, and Jagalû Khalkhalu of Machin. They devastated several, of its settlements, and for several months besieged the suburbs of the capital, and caused a famine in the country. At length Hasan, with his brother,