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Suliman Khoja, the *Shekhulislâm* or "high priest" of Khokand, to re-assure and T.S.
conciliate Alím Culí and bring him in on a promise of pardon and kind treatment.
But the wily and rough Kapchák refused to trust the "high priest's" promises, and
turned a deaf ear to his honied words of persuasion; and Khudáyár in consequence
sent a force to coerce him under Mullá Sultán as commander. He seized Andijan
and detached Abdullá *Pánsad* (the author of the work I quote) to secure Shahrikhán
whilst he fortified his own position. But on the third night Alím Culí took the fort
by surprise and killed nearly a thousand of the Kirghiz and Kapchák, whilst Mullá
Sultán escaped on foot and in disguise to Shahrikhan.

Khudáyár immediately took the field to retrieve this disaster, but on arrival at
Karáwultappa he mistrusted his Kirghiz and Kapchák, and consequently sent
3,000 of them back to Khokand. He then advanced by Karájizhda and
Marghinán to Yacca Tút, where he was joined by Mullá Sultán and Abdúlla with
their diminished force. Alím Culí in this interval had left Andijan and taken up
a position at Aska, and Khudáyár, learning this from his scouts, left his main army
standing, and with a small force advanced to attack him at Cabá Shor; but he was
forestalled by his adversary who fell upon him with his whole force as he reached the
ground. A severe fight followed, and lasted till sunset, with great loss on both sides.

Sultán Murád, the brother of Khudáyár, fled the field and took the road to the
capital, but was stopped by the army left at Yacca Tút; and the Khán, unable to
follow his example, set to work and fortified his position with carts and camp equipage
for the night. He was here besieged for three days when Alím Culí, failing to
force his defences with his few men, retired to Marghinán to collect his Kapchák from
the hills; and Khudáyár thus set free seized the opportunity and hurried back to Yacca
Tút where he halted four days, and sent off messengers reporting a great victory and
the flight of the enemy, for the satisfaction of his party at Khokand.

His couriers had no sooner started, however, than Alím Culí re-appeared with a
fresh army and besieged Khudáyár in his camp for forty days, and then making
a dash at Khokand seized the city; here the priests and chief citizens coming out
with *cwrdus* borne on their heads welcomed his arrival and set him on the throne as
Khán.

Khudáyár now in turn resumed the offensive, and following the usurper attacked
him in the capital; and here all the people again turned back to the side of their lawful
chief. Alím Culí, unable to hold the place against such a combination, quitted
the city taking with him seventeen cannons he found in it, and continued the war
by besieging Andijan, which had been re-occupied on the part of Khudáyár by
Kádir Culí Beg. He held out eight days, and then surrendering the place joined
the Kapchák leader who with his new ally then attacked Marghinán held by Mullá
Sultán. He was killed in a sortie, and his *Mingbáshí*, Mirzá Ahmad, then abandon-
ing the fort fled to Khokand. Alím Culí secured the place with a garrison and then
went in pursuit of the fugitive.

In this interim Khudáyár had sent his sister as wife to the Bukhárá Amír with
envoys to seek his aid. Muzaffaruddín married the lady, and then in 1863 set out
with a large army to the support of his new brother-in-law who was now hard-pressed
by Alím Culí besieging the capital, when the relieving army opportunely arrived at
Khujand. Alím Culí's outpost pickets being driven in by the advancing army, he
raised the siege and retired to Dormánja to watch events, but finding that the
Bukhárá army had entered Khokand he set out on the third day and retreated to
Karású.

After a week's delay Khudáyár took the field in pursuit of the enemy, and his
ally of Bukhárá followed a march in rear. Alím Culí was defeated at Karású
and pursued to Uzkand, whence he entered the hills and fortified a very strong
position in the Kará Khoja *Tar*, or "Defile." Khudáyár followed him, but, frightened
by difficulties of the country, hastily retired from the hills, and joined his ally who was
devastating the plain country. Muzaffaruddín, after a feast to celebrate their success