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The rest of the country, however, still continued in a very disordered. state. The T.R.

Jails nobles, with the Bären tribe and Konji nobles, joined the Kalmäk in plundering Mogholistan north of the Tianshan ; the Cäloji and others joined Abûlkhyr in Uzbakistan ; whilst the Kirghiz of Atbäshi and Isigh Kol harried the Farghäna and Täshkand borders. During this period of disturbance, Eshän Bogha, in 855 H.= 1450 A.D., being joined at Atbäshi by Mir Muhammad Shah, the son of Khudadäd, carried an incursion across the borders, and plundered the districts of Turkistan, Täshkand, and Syram. And again, taking advantage of the absence of Abû Said Mirza, the great grandson of Tymûr and successor of Ulugh at Samarcand, in his campaign against Khuräsan (on the death of Shahrûkh), he invaded Andijan, seized the fort, and, liberating its governor, Ali Kochak, on ransom, plundered the country, and retired to the hills.

From this secure retreat he repeated his incursions till Abû Said, powerless to

check him, recalled Yûnus from his exile, and, making a treaty of alliance with him, set him up with an army, and sent him to recover his patrimony from his younger brother. Yûnus at this time, 860 H.=1455 A.D., was forty-one years of age. He set out on his enterprise without delay, and on arrival in Mogholistan was joined by the Konji tribe under their Chief, Pir Häji, whose daughter, Doulat Begum, he married. She bore him three sons. At Isigh Kol he was joined by the Begjik tribe with their Chief, Mir Ibrahim, the nephew of Pir Hace Birdi. With these adherents to his cause Yûnus marched against Kashghar.

Here the aged Syad Ali summoned to his aid Eshän Boghä., who at the time was in Yuldûz. He hastily collected sixty thousand Jattah, and arrived at Kashghar

in eleven days with but six thousand of his men. Yûnus, nevertheless, was defeated   .,n.... .

and driven back to Mogholistan, where his lately made friends, deserting him, returned to their own camps and pastures; and bis borrowed army, following their example, took their own waÿs back to their homes. Yûnus, with only a few trusty servants, wandered awhile in distress and disguise, and finally returned to Abû Said in .Khuräsän, attended by a single slave, whom, in the absence of any other property, he presented as an offering on first admission to his patron's presence. Abû Said, on learning the deplorable state of his affairs, restored the faithful slave to him, and, setting him up afresh, gave him a residence at Banikand, called also Shährikhi. Here he provided him with a fresh army, and once more sent him to renew the attempt to recover his throne.

Syad Ali died at Kashghar in 862 H.=1457 A.D. and left two sons, Saniz

Mirza, by a Jaras wife, and Hydar Mirza, by Oron Nishin Khanim, the aunt of Yûnus and sister of Wais Khan. According to Moghol custom, Saniz, the eldest, succeeded to the government; but he was a mild and timid Prince, and, resigning Kashghar and Yangi Hissar to his brother, retired to the less disturbed Yarkand, which he made his capital.

Hydar was married to Daulat Nigar Khanim, the daughter of Eshän Bogha, and his sympathies were, consequently, with him instead of with Yûnus. And on the death of his father-in-law, in 866 H.=1461 A.D., he allied with his son and successor Dost Muhammad. Saniz on the contrary allied with Yûnus.

The brothers did not agree, and Yûnus, after his return from Abû Said set up

with a fresh army, now again coming to Kashghar as rightful King, Hydar left the place and joined Dost Muhammad at Aksû. After some stay at Kashghar, during ,• which he contracted a marriage with the daughter of the King of Badakhshän, his nomads fretting under the restraints of city life, and deserting him with increasing frequency, Yûnus was afraid of being left alone in his newly recovered capital, and, consequently, appointing Saniz to the Government of Kashghar, he returned to

Mogholistan with his restless wanderers.

Saniz died at Kashghar, after a reign of seven years, by a fall from his horse, in 869 H. =1464 A.D., and Hydar at once took possession of the city from Aksd. Dost Muhammad at the same time made an attempt to seize Yarkand, but, the gates being

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