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56 The same with ll Bilgkan . 
following. When Said arrived in Bilghan, there came 
M-BEG, 
fortress that they entered, they massacred 
the infidels and took their wives and chil- 
dren into captivity, — Hence they set off to 
Barda. Said said to the Musulmans: «think 
not (only) of captives and spoil, trust in God; 
there may be a hope of victory over the in- 
fidels; and captives and riches may then be 
obtained. — When Sa’id came to Bailgkan °°. 
there came information that the son of the 
Khagkan had besieged a fortress in which a 
few Musulmans with their wives and chil- 
dren were shut up, and that the inhabitants 
must soon yield the fortress and all the Musul- 
mans be carried away into captivity. Sa’id sought 
out a Musulman *” in Bailgkan, to whom he 
said: «canst thou give up thy soul in the 
path of God and become a martyr? Canst thou 
haste to those exhausted Musulmans, inform 
(them of our arrival and say, that they should 
attempt with zeal to defend the fortress till 
we come?» — The man said; «I obey; I 
will go and inform them.» He had a piebald 
horse; he mounted it, and quitted the for- 
tress (of Bailgkan) and took a by-way. He 
continued his journey until the next morning, 
and did not meet any of the Khazars; but 
in the morning a party (of these) encoun_ 
.« . JL have omitted here a few lines of which the contents are the 
to him a Musulman complainiug that, during the late 
war between Djerrah and the Khazars, one of the Turkhans of the Khagkan (read hereafter note 71) carried 
into captivity his daughters; that now the enemy and his friends live in a village not far, and do not know 
of the arrival of the new Musulman troops. There he begged him to restore his daughters to him. Sa’id im- 
- mediately dispatched a squadron under the direction of Abdul-melik and accomplished the supnliant's desire: 
the Tarkhan and all his friends were cut in pieces and the captives delivered. — 
57 Add. N. In the Persian trauslation of Teberi this man is called Berdek, and Nerdek; in the Djaghatai 
version — Fezdek. In both it is said that he was a Persian Prince, a brave warrior and knew weli the Khsza- 
rian language. (Dr. Dorn’s Nachrichten &c. p. 29; 79 
and 118.) 
The name of the fortress besieged by the Khagkan is said in the Persian and Djaghatai translations of 
Teberi to be Fergkan otherwise Fernan which Dr. Do 
rn’s reads Warsan (Nachrichten &c. p. 25. note 1.). — 
