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Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 |
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where they dig and sift gold during only forty days of the year owing to the T.R.
excessive cold. Other gold mines of Tibet are in Champa.
Mirzá Hydar and Iskandar, the son of Sáid, with four thousand men led the
advance, and proceeding by the direct route arrived at Nubra in Safar 938 H.
= 1532 A.D. From this they sent off parties in all directions to convert to Islám,
or to slay the recusants. They took the fort of Maryol, which was held by two Chiefs
called Lacca Choghdán and Basánkol.
The cold here was intense. From this Iskandar was hastily recalled owing
to the alarming illness of his father from dam = "breath" on the Dolpá road
from Khutan. On arrival at Nubra, however, Sáid recovered, and with a thousand
men turned off to winter at Báltí. Iskandar, meanwhile, rejoining Mirzá Hydar,
pushed on by the Zojí Pass, where he quickly routed its four hundred defenders, to
winter in Kashmír.
Bahrám Toc, the Ruler of Báltí, submitted to Sáid who at once took possession
of the town, located his troops in its houses, killed the men, seized the women, and
till spring waged a destructive guerilla all over the country to Maryol. During the
same time Iskandar subjugated Káshmír, and married the daughter of Muhammad
Sháh its King.
In the spring both parties met in Maryol. From here Sáid sent Iskandar and
Mirzá Hydar, with two thousand men, to destroy the idol city of Aorsáng (or as it
is colloquially pronounced Aocháng or Ucháng), which was the cabla or Jerusalem
of the Khitáy, and himself set out on his return to Yárkand by the Sácrí Pass into
Nubra. On rising from this to the highland of the Karákoram Pass, Sáid was again
taken ill with dam, and, though hurried along to get across the difficult parts as
quickly as possible, died at a stage only four days short of the place where the dam
is no longer felt. The spot, I may here note, is marked by the name Daulat Beg
Uldi="The Lord of the State died." It is the stage directly to the south of the Ká rá-
koram Pass, and is 16,400 feet above the sea. Sáid died at the end of 939 H., aged
forty-six years, having reigned twenty. On the arrival of the corpse, Syad
Muhammad Mirzá, who had repaired to the capital from his government at Káshghar
on first intimation of the King's death, performed the funeral rites, and, with a
strong party of nobles in support, assumed the government pending the return of
Iskandar.
But Rashíd at the same time coming from Aksú, seized Syad Muhammad on
the first day of the new year 940 H., and slew him over his father's grave where the
unsuspecting minister had come to express the usual condolence. He then mounted
the throne himself, and, sending off his agents to Káshghar, executed all the family
of his victim, and confiscated his property.
Iskandar and Mirzá Hydar, meanwhile, had penetrated twenty marches towards
Aorsáng, and on the 1st Safar, having defeated the Champa Tibetans at Báryáng,
captured great booty in cattle and sheep. They ravaged the country around for
several months, and on the 1st Muharram 940 H., the day on which Rashíd killed
Syad Muhammad, were attacked in a narrow defile by Kárdom and the Hindú army
and defeated with considerable loss; Hydar's brother, 'Abdulla, being amongst the
slain.
From Maryol this expeditionary force marched altogether two months towards
Aorsáng. In one month they came to the forts of Nok and Labok on the shore of a
lake forty farsakh in circuit. Here they lost nearly all their horses from the fatal effects
of dam, and the army had to proceed on foot with great difficulty and loss to Támlue,
whence is fourteen days' journey to Bangála. At Támlue horses enough to mount ninety
men were seized, and the army then advanced four days' march to Askarof, whence
is a journey of twenty days to Aorsáng. From this they were forced to retire
owing to the exhaustion and inefficiency of the troops. From Támlue to Maryol
is twenty stages. In two stages they came to Koko, and there levied a contribution
of three thousand mithcál of gold from the people.
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