between Faraghina and Khirabuk. Out on the rise, Mazld Taghal came up and joined us. An arrow had pierced his right leg also and though it had not gone through and come out again, he got to Aush with difficulty. The enemy unhorsed (tushiirdllar) good men of mine; Nasir Beg, Muh. 'All Mubashir, Khwaja Muh. 'AH, Khusrau Kukiilddsh, Na'man the page, all fell (to them, tiishtildr), and also many unmailed braves.1
(g. The Khans move from Kdsdn to Andijdn.)
The Khans, closely following on Tambal, dismounted near Andijan, the Elder at the side of the Reserve (quruq) in the garden, known as Birds'-mill (Qush-tlglrmdn), belonging to my grandmother, Aisan-daulat Begim, the Younger, near Baba. Tawakkul's Alms-house. Two days later I went from Aush and saw the Elder Khan in Birds'-mill. At that interview, he simply gave over to the Younger Khan the places which had come in to me. He made some such excuse as that for our advantage, he had brought the Younger Khan, how far! because such a foe as Shaibaq Khan had taken Samarkand and was waxing greater; that the Younger1 Khan had there no lands whatever, his own being far away; and that the country under Andijan, on the south of the Khujand-water, must be given him to encamp in. He promised me the country under Akhsi, on the north of the Khujand-water. He said that after taking a firm grip of that country (Farghana), they would move, take Samarkand, give it to me and then the whole of the Farghana country was to be the Younger Khan's. These words seem to have been meant to deceive me, since there is no knowing what they would have done when they had attained their object. It had to be however! willy-nilly, I agreed.
When, leaving him, I was on my way to the Younger Khan's presence, Qambar-'ali, known as the Skinner, joined me in a friendly way and said, ' Do you see ? They have taken the whole of the country just become yours. There is no opening
1 Amongst the various uses of the verb lushmak, to descend in any way, the B.N. does not allow of ' falling (death) in battle.' When I made the index of the Hai. MS. facsimile, this was not known to me ; I therefore erroneously entered the men enumerated here as killed at this time.
