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0242 Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1
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shin belonged to Kâshghar, to which they had been annexed by Abâbakar; whilst T. R. the cultivated' vallies to the west were held by the Uzbak. Between the two, a few narrow glens were all that. remained to a heretic king, called Shih R{izfûddin, Chircighkush, whom .the Badakhshi had set on the throne. Amongst them in his little fort of Zafar, Mirth Khin, the only Musalmân in the country, led a hard and

solitary life, pinched for the bare necessaries of existence.   -

  •   Said remained three years at Kabul, till Shâhibeg or 'Shaibân was killed at the

  •              battle of Mary by Shah Ismail, the new King of Persia, and then accompanied Bâbur

to Kundûz. Meanwhile, Syad Muhammad Mirzâ, son of Muhammad Hydar (my author's uncle), had expelled Jânibeg and secured Andijân. And he now sought the support of Bâbur, who sent Mid and other Moghol nobles to occupy the province; and Syad Muhammad, on being relieved of the government, was appointed i li sbegi of the Moghol.

Following this, Abâbakar, thinking to profit by the dislocated state of affairs across the border, invaded Andijaii with twenty thousand -men from Kâshghar, but was defeated at Titligh, two farsakk from the city, by Si-id with only fifteen hundred men. In this interim, Bâbur, having defeated the Uzbuk at Hissâr and driven them out of Mâwaranahar, mounted the throne at Samarcand in 917 H.=

  • '   1509-10A.D. In the spring, however, the Uzbak returned from Tâshkand under
    'Ubedulla ßhan, who seized Bukhara.

Bâbur went out to oppose him, but was defeated at Ghajdawân, and retiring to the capital, fled thence with his family to Hissâr ; and the Uzbak once more gained the Ascendancy. Sa'id, too, at the same time, advanced to check the enemy at Tâshkand, but he also was defeated, and driven back to Andij ân by Siiynnj, who overran the border districts.

On the return of Bâbur, with the Persian army sent to his aid by Shah Ismail,

Said, in the spring of 918H.=1511A.D., went to seek the aid of Kâsim, the Kapcha k King. But he returned unsuccessful, and when, two years later, the Uzbak with a numberless host invaded Farghana, he quitted the country in Babi Awwal, the spring of 920 H.=1513A.D., and retired to Yatakand on the borders of Mogholistân. From this he presently invaded Kâshghar where Abâbakar, now aged sixty years, was as weak in authority as he was unpopular in rule.

On the approach of the invader, Abâbakar, transporting the entire population to Yarkand, destroyed the ancient fort and city of Kâshghar, which from remote times had been the capital of the country, and the residence of the kings of the Afrasyâb dynasty.

Regarding this ancient city, Mirzi Hydar gives the following account in the Tarikki Rathidi :Afrâsyâb was a Turk, and is the Boci Khin of the Moghol. He was the son of Pash, the son of Kharshin, the son of Tir, the son of Faridin. In later times Kâshghar was the capital of Situk Bughra Khin, who introduced Islam. After him it was the capital of Gorkhân, the Kari Khitiy King, who ruled over all Mâwarânahar ; and of his successor Koshlik, the Chief of the Niymân tribe of Christians, who was killed by the troops of Changiz in Sârigh Chopin, whither he had fled for refuge amongst the Badakhshi.

In the division of his empire, Changiz gave the countries of Mogholistân, Kari Khitiy, Turkistan, and Mâwarinahar to his son Chaghtay. And similarly, in the distribution of his nobles, he gave to him the Doghlat tribe. Chaghtay settled them in the Manglaay Siiba from Shish on the west to Jalish on the east, and from Isigh Kol on the north to Sarigh Uighiir on the south. The first Doghlat who resided in the Sârigh Uighiir region was Amir Bâyzid, and the government has descended from father to son to Abâbakar.

Kâshghar formerly produced many things that are not now known in the country, expecially the furs called ec'cûm=otter, and sinjâb=ermine. Its limits are, on the west, Shish and the high mountains of Bolor, which form a chain from south to north, where they join the range of Mogholistan ; on the east, the country beyond Ttxrfan

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