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to be rigorously enforced, and it fell on the merchants as severely as 

 his avowed robberies. 



The Maghids of Cdbul, when they learned that Bayezi'd was levying 

 men, and purchasing horses, on the credit of the wealth of Acbar, pre- 

 pared to act against him vigoroijsly ; but it was necessary to proceed with 

 caution, as in the mountainous district of Tirah, he could no longer be 

 taken by surprise. The Afghd?is of Tirah, though they had embraced 

 the sect of Ba YEZiD, and formally classed themselves -among his disci- 

 ples, appear, nevertheless, to have preserved all their frieitdly habits, and 

 connections with the Moghuls, and to bave retained a secret partiality for 

 the ordinances of Islam. Ba'yezid, having discovered among them, some 

 secret practices with the Moghuls ^ determined to inflict on them a dreadful 

 vengeance, which might have the effect of deterring others, from following 

 their example. But as the mountaineers were brave and courageous, in 

 order to accomplish his design with safety, he practised oft them the fol- 

 lowing stratagem.— After expressing some dissatisfaction with their con- 

 duct, he said, " If youv**ould recover my favour, you must all of you appear 

 before me, one by one, with your hands bound, in order that I may myself 

 release you." Ba'yezid had practised so many mystical and symbolical 

 ceremonies, that the rude and simple mountaineers were induced, without 

 hesitation, to comply with his order; and in the blindness of their delusion, 

 did as he suggested. They appeared before him, severally, with their 

 hands bound ; and three hundred of them, he caused to be put to instant 

 death, and laid the district ^o desolate, that it never returned into the 

 possession of the original inhabitants, but passed into the hands of another 

 race of mountaineers. Thus, say-s Akh'un De-rwe'zeh, were the Af- 

 ghans of Tirah punished for their apostacy, according to the words of 



