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he arrived. Thither he was followed by Chungeez with such expedition, 

 as to be overtaken and defeated before he could effect a passage. Julal- 

 ood-deen swam across the river with only one or two attendants in 

 sight of the conqueror, whose admiration was much excited by the feat. 

 The site of this battle, which was the limit of Chungeez Khan's 

 irruption in that direction, is not known, nor the routes by which he 

 and his enemy marched for the river, but they must evidently have been 

 in the line east or south-east of Ghuzni; and the Gomul pass was 

 therefore most probably that followed by Chungeez, while Julal-ood-deen 

 went either by the same, or by that which debouches upon Dera Deen 

 Punah. 



For the punishment of Herat, Chungeez now sent a third force 

 of 80,000 horse, which taking the place after an assault of six days, left 

 only sixteen persons alive of the entire population. Chungeez returned 

 northward by Bulkh after his victory on the Indus, but was com- 

 pelled to send back Oghtaee Khan, his fourth son, to quell an insur- 

 rection at Ghuzni, and to destroy that city also, which had been saved 

 hitherto, because it had submitted upon capitulation. All these oper- 

 ations were completed in four years, between 1219 and 1222 a. d. 

 inclusive, and this wonderful conqueror returned in the last of these 

 years, in order to complete the conquest of China, which he had effect- 

 ed only as far as the great Yellow River before he entered Kharizm. 

 He died, leaving the remainder to be achieved by his grandson. He 

 was met on his way back by his generals, Juna Noyan and Suveda, who 

 from Herat entered Persia by Nyshapoor, and destroying Toos, Huma- 

 dan, and all the cities that resisted in the north of Persia as far as Kur- 

 distan, turned round thence by the west of the Caspian, and forcing 

 the Durbund Pass, made good their march to the Wolga, and thence 

 across the Kipchak Desert to Khiva and Kharizm, where Toolee Khan, 

 a son of Chungeez, was firmly established as ruler. As long as 

 history lasts, the astonishment of the world will rest on these achieve- 

 ments, imperfectly as the particulars are known. 



We come now to the no less wonderful expeditions of Ameer 

 Tymoor, commonly called in Europe Tamerlane, or Tymoorlung. This 

 conqueror was originally a petty chief of Mawuroonnuhur, but raised 

 himself by the daring and active part he took in the troubles which 

 in his youth distracted that region. Toghluk Tymoor, of the Chungeez 





