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LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
CHAPTER VI. 
a.d. 1366 — 1369. 
When peace had been restored between Timur 
and Hussyn, the former retired to Kesh, where he 
soon after obtained information that the governor of 
Herat had invaded the territory of Balkh and plun- 
dered the inhabitants. He hastened against the in- 
vaders, surprised them by the extraordinary celerity 
of his movements, seized all their plunder, restored 
it to those from whom it had been taken, and re- 
turned with equal expedition to Badukhshan, whither 
Hussyn had proceeded to quell an insurrection of 
the princes of that district. Here the rival amyrs 
again met, renewed their pledges of friendship, and 
entered into arrangements for the immediate reduc- 
tion of Cabulistan, the governor of which had revolt- 
ed from his allegiance to Hussyn. Timur advanced 
against the fortress of Cahul, and became master 
of it after a vigorous resistance. Nothing perhaps 
can give a better idea of the character of this 
prince than his own account of his treatment of the 
governor : — 
“ It came into my mind,” says he,* “ that no legi- 
timately horn person would have acted in the infamous 
* Memoirs, p. 118. 
