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abandon them, he became a wanderer and an exile. 
About this time. Ally Dost Toghai, who had resigned 
the province of Andejan into the hands of Jehangire 
Mirza, made overtures to his former master for a re- 
storation to favour. Baber gladly listened to the 
proposals; and that noble, as a proof of his sin- 
cerity, delivered the fort of Marghinan, in one of 
the southern divisions of Ferghana, into the king’s 
hands. The rebels, who had seized upon Andejan, 
when they received intelligence of this, laid siege to 
Marghinan, but were obliged to retire in great dis- 
order. Shortly after, Andejan declared in favour 
of the lawful sovereign, who once more entered his 
capital. Jehangire Mirza was in his turn obliged to 
abandon the province and retire to Ush, a district of 
Ferghana, on the south of the river Jaxartes. 
A second revolt of his Moghul troops, in conse- 
quence of an order that they should restore all plun- 
der taken from the king’s adherents, again reduced 
Baber to the greatest straits. The rebels being join- 
ed by Sultan Ahmed Tumbol, one of the disaffected 
begs who had united with Jehangire Mirza in his 
revolt, attacked the royal forces which had been sent 
against him and defeated them, many officers of dis- 
tinction being slain and several made prisoners. 
Baber having recruited his forces, on the twenty- 
fifth of August 1499 quitted his capital, from which 
he had previously obliged the enemy to retire after 
they had laid siege to it for thirty days. The re- 
bels advanced against Ush, but were followed by the 
young monarch ; when suddenly decamping, they made 
a forced march and appeared again before Andejan. The 
