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innocent victims of their father's 

 misfortune, had been condemned to 

 imprisonment, with abominable mal- 

 treatment and, upon reaching the age 

 of eleven years, to be given over as 

 slaves to the soldiery in Turkistan or 

 in the Amoor region. * 



* . . . "In consequence of the rebel- 

 lious attitude of the Mussulmans of Kashgar, 

 and their openly expressed regrets at the loss 

 of their beloved Yakoob Beg, the Chinese 

 authorities ordered the bodies of Yakoob 

 Beg and of his son, Ishana Beg, to be disin- 

 terred and publicly burned to cinders. The 

 ashes of Yakoob Beg were, moreover, sent to 

 Peking. 



" At the time that Eastern Turkistan again 

 passed into the hands of China, there were 

 taken prisoners four sons, two grandsons, two 

 granddaughters, and four wives of Yakoob 

 Beg. Some of these were executed and 

 others died; but in 1879 there remained in 

 prison in Lanchanfoo, the capital of Kan- 

 suh, Maiti Kuli, aged fourteen; Yima Kuli, 

 aged ten; K'ati Kuli, aged six; sons of Ya- 

 koob Beg; and Aisan Ahung, aged five, his 

 grandson. These wretched little boys were 

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