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LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
separating them into five sections of twelve men each, 
so as to give them the appearance of a considerable 
body. Having distributed to every section a distin- 
guishing flag,, and placed each under the command of 
a resolute officer; Timur stationed himself at their 
head. The JeteS; confiding in their superior nume- 
rical strength; charged them with great resolution; hut 
were so vigorously opposed by two of the divisions of 
Timur’s brave band that they fell back in astonish- 
ment. The two officers commanding these divisions, 
pursuing their advantage, followed the retreating squa- 
drons of the enemy, until, both their horses being dis- 
abled, Timur sent them two of his own, upon which 
they mounted and returned, flushed with success, to 
their post. So desperate had been the conflict, that 
of the thousand Jetes only three hundred effective 
men remained, the rest having been either killed or 
wounded, and some had quitted the field. 
During the struggle of those two sections with the 
enemy’s van, Amyr Hussyn charged the centre of the 
adverse line ; but, pushing heedlessly forward, was 
surrounded by the foe, and rescued by Timur at the 
imminent hazard of his own life. When the evening- 
closed in, which obliged the contending parties to dis- 
continue hostilities, the Jetes had only a hundred and 
fifty men remaining, and Timur’s force was reduced to 
twelve. At day-break the Jetes again charged this 
small but determined body. The latter, with one con- 
sent, resolved to maintain the struggle so long as 
there remained a single man alive. Timur slew 
several of the enemy with his own hand. They 
were amazed at his prodigious prowess and desperate 
