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Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 |
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T.R. eloquence of Khoja Muhammad Yúsuf just arrived from Táshkand, however, dis-
suaded him from the purpose. Instead thereof he made him confess and repent his
sins, and promise to expiate them by serving God and the Prophet by the prosecution
of a yearly ghazát against the pagans and infidels on his borders.
In the spring of 931 H. = 1524 A.D., Sáid again went to the support of
Rashíd at Isígh Kul, where he had his camp to control the Kirghiz. Whilst there he
received intelligence of the death of Súyúnjuk and disorder amongst the Uzbak.
Consequently he at once invaded Andiján, seized Uzkand, the strongest fort in the
country, and razed it to the ground, captured Ush and the capital, and annexing them
to Káshghar, returned to Mogholistán. Here he established Rashíd in the govern-
ment against Táhir Khan and Abúl Kásim, the Uzbak leaders whose cause had failed
in Máwaránahar, and returned to his own capital. On the rise of the Manghít, how-
ever, in succession to them, and their invasion of Mogholistán, Rashíd, unable to
hold his own against them, returned to Káshghar.
In the winter following this, Sáid sent Rashíd and Mirzá Hydar (the author of
Táríkhi Rashídé) on a ghazát against the kúfir of Bolor. This country is bounded
east by Káshghar and Yárkand; north by Badakhshán; west by Kábul; and south
by Kashmír. It is altogether a mountain fastness, and has not a level farsakh of
ground in a circuit of four months' journey. Its people have no religion, and their
women do all the labour, field and domestic. The men do nothing but fight each
other all day and every day, and only cease when their women interpose with food.
They then enter their houses, and on the conclusion of the meal return to fight; and
so it goes on from sunrise to sunset; and at night they always barricade their doors
and keep watch.
These people have few oxen, but lots of goats and sheep from whose wool they
make all their clothing. There is little pasture in the country; and every glen has
its own peculiar language which is unintelligible to the neighbours. Honey and
fruits are in plenty. The pomegranates are especially good, and have sweet white
grains like those of no other country. Rashíd returned from this expedition, in which
he does not appear to have effected much against the kúfir, by way of Sárigh Chopán
in the summer of 934 H. = 1527 A.D.
On the death of Mirzá Khán, his infant son, Sulemán, succeeded to the throne
of Badakhshán. Bábur had him brought to Kabul, and sent his own son, Humáyún,
to hold the country. He governed it from 926 to 935 H. = 1519 to 1528 A.D.,
when he was summoned to India. The Badakhshí now feared the Uzbak, and sought
protection of Sáid. He left Rashíd in the government of Káshghar, and set out
for Badakhshán in 936 H. = 1529 A.D. On arrival at Zafar, however, he found
the fort already occupied by Hindál, the brother of Humáyún. It being mid-winter,
and retreat impossible, Sáid negotiated a stay of three months with Hindál on the
grounds that he had come to protect the place against Uzbak invasion, and with no
thought of wresting it from Kábul. After a very hard time of it in deep snows, with
a scarcity of provisions, Sáid was glad to turn back to his capital with the first
approach of spring. Bábur on this recalled Hindál, and re-established Sulemán at
Zafar.
Following this in the winter of 937 H. = 1530 A.D., Sáid resumed Aksú from
Mansúr, and appointed Rashíd to its government with Mirzá Hydar as his minister.
Six months later he recalled the latter, and in Zé'Híj, the spring of 938 H.
= 1532 A.D., set out with him and an army of five thousand men on a ghazát against
Tibet.
The rivers of Tibet on the north-east all flow to the Kok Nor Kol in the sandy
desert. It is three months' journey in circuit; and from the lake flows the great Kará
Morán river of Khitá.
The Dolpá tribe of Tibet trade between Khitá and Hind, and carry their mer-
chandize exclusively on sheep. They spend one winter in Khitá and the other
in Hind. Three hundred families of them live in under-ground burrows at Altúnchi,
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