1842.] from the West and North-west 557 



noyau and Suveda Buhadur, received the submission, and turned 

 towards Nyshapoor and Persia. The third who followed the other two 

 was not satisfied, and insisting on the possession of the citadel, stormed 

 the town, but failed in the assault and was killed. From Bulkh, 

 Chungeez bearing of this disaster, despatched Toolee Khan with a 

 large force, who reduced and established governors in both Merv and 

 Herat, and rejoined his father during his siege of Talikan. Julal- 

 ood-deen, son of Mohummed Shah, had by this time retired to Ghuzni, 

 and, uniting in his cause all the Afghan tribes, promised to make 

 head against the Tartars in the difficult field of Afghanistan. Chun- 

 geez marched against him from Bulkh by the road of Talikan, 

 which place cost him a siege of seven months. Seeing the importance 

 of cutting off the Afghans from Persia, where Mohummed Shah also 

 threatened again to make head, Chungeez sent a second detachment 

 of 30,000 horse from Talikan to Herat under three new generals. 

 These advanced from Herat to a place called Sagil, by Abool Ghazee 

 Khan, and supposed to be Kandahar, but I rather incline to think it may 

 be Sakhir, the capital of the Ghor country, then a city of great con- 

 sideration, or if not Sakhir,* some place on the Helmund, for a river 

 is specifically mentioned. Julal-ood-deen advanced with all the troops of 

 Afghanistan, and giving battle to Chungeez Khan's generals while 

 engaged in this siege, defeated them with great loss and relieved the 

 place. The Afghan chiefs, however, quarrelled about the booty, 

 and one gave the other a box on the ear,j* which led to two 

 principal chiefs deserting from Julal-ood-deen's army, one of whom 

 retired to Kurman in Persia, while the other, Khan Malik, went 

 back to Herat. In the mean time, Chungeez Khan had taken 

 Talikan, and advanced to Inderab, which detained him another month, 

 and it was here that he heard of Julal-ood-deen's victory. He imme- 

 diately advanced by Bameean to Kabool, but lost a favorite grandson, 

 (son of Oghtaee Khan,) at the siege of the former place. Coming 

 suddenly upon Ghuzni, it was yielded to him, and he learned that 

 Julal-ood-deen had made for the Indus river only fifteen days before 



* The Rozut-oos-sufa calls the place Valiban, and says it was on the river Baran. 

 This book is a compilation of high authority made by Ameer Alee Khan, between the 

 years 1444 and 1496 a. d. 



f The Rozut-oos-sufa says, a blow of a whip. 



