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LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
zeed Jelayr, governor of Samerkund. These two 
generals,, uniting their forces and encamping on the 
plains of Kesh, laid a plot to inveigle Timur into their 
camp, with intent to murder him and obtain posses- 
sion of the country under his rule. The wary pre- 
caution, however, of their intended victim defeated 
this treacherous design. Having entered the tent of 
Bayezeed, to which he had been invited under pretence 
of coming to an amicable adjustment, the prince per- 
ceived that the carpet was raised in a particular spot, 
which was covered with felt. Beneath, a deep hole 
had been sunk. Suspecting treachery, he pretended 
to be overtaken with a sudden bleeding of the nose, 
and abruptly quitting the tent, joined his officers, and 
thus escaped the snare laid against his life. Shortly 
after, Bayezeed and Berlas quarrelled, by which sea- 
sonable dissension Timur was delivered from their 
malice and their treachery. From this time his power 
rapidly increased. 
