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city of Qhabul without striking a blow. His brother offered 
some resistance, however. He fought the vanguard of the 
younger prince. which consisted of 40,000 horse;' but, when 
he saw the elephants and other cavalry, on which he had 
Indo there are some independent mountain-chiefs disposing 
of 12,000 or 14,000 horse, who came all of them to offer 
y him. 
e horses of the Moors are Turkish or Osbaquis; they 
have others from Tartary, which are strong, but without beauty 
and brightness of colour. The King and the great Captains 
have Arabs, many of them, and of excellent quality. The 
gentoos ride country-breds, for they do not fight on horse- 
back, their weapons being short lances like darts, and rodels 
or circular shields. When they come upon the enemy, they 
jump down, and do what they can with their short lances. 
The Moors fight with Turkish bows, with which they do harm 
while they beat in retreat. Their arrow on the string, they 
ace about to the left and shoot, while their horses gallop 
on at full speed. Their infantry is armed with muskets, 
and sometimes with bows and arrows, or with sword and 
io 
hemisphere. These were in the van. Hehad also with him 
50 elephants, each with four musketeers, placed on certain 
appliances, like children’s cradles, with a balcony which they 
can turn in any direction they like. These musketeers dis- 
charged bullets of the size of an e 
1 A clerical error. Read 4,000. Cf. Mong. Leg. Comm., fol. 78b, 3, 
where wo read that Mirza Hakim attacked with 15,000 me 
Osbaqui to be an article, and thus obtained Bacheni, or di © 
Balcheni in his original ?—On horses and the places they came from, 
