106 H. G. Raverfcy —Tibbat three hundred and sixty-five years ago. [No. 2, 
to come up, but foolishly threw himself upon the enemy, with only three 
men with him. The enemy surrounded them ; and at this juncture, 
Mahmud Mirza, with four others came to his assistance, charged among 
the enemy, and rescued ‘Abdu-l-lah Mirza. Not content with this, 
‘Abdu-l-lah [and the others] again faced about and charged their 
opponents ; and he was again completely surrounded, when five heroes 
came up, and seeing them in this plight, they also charged the infidels ; 
but before they could reach them, they had cut my brother, ‘Abdu-l-lah, 
into pieces, in such wise that every bit of his body, armour, and clothes 
remained in the possession of those infidels. 
“ Having continued in the pasture grounds here [at Bar-yang] until 
the cattle were refreshed and recruited, I sent back from this place all 
the booty that had been taken ; and having carefully selected 900 men 
from my force, with these I set out for Ursang. From Mar-yol of Tib¬ 
bat to this place is a distance of two months’ journey, and when within 
one month’s distance from it, we reached a point where there is a great 
hoi or lake, 1 the circumference of which is forty farsangs [leagues], and 
on the banks thereof there is a fort Avhich they call Tok [Tliok] of 
Labok, or Labuk, and there we happened to pass the night. Alas, 
when we awoke the next morning, the whole of the horses were dead, 
with the exception of a very few which were half-dead and paralyzed 
or distorted ! I had twenty-seven horses of my own along with me, and 
by morning, but one remained unaffected, two others were half-dead, 
and twenty-four were quite dead ; and this was the effect of dam-girl, as 
before explained. 
“ When we started from that place that morning one-fifth of the 
troops only were mounted, and the rest had to march on foot. On the 
second day, a district or territory named Yam 2 was harried, and many 
captives were taken. The people thereof stated that from thence to 
Bangalah was a road of twenty-four days’ journey. 3 At this time, of 
1 This lake seems to be the “ Chargut Cho, or Lake ” of the maps, the largest 
of several west and north-west of the Tingri Nawar, and from which Lhasa is dis¬ 
tant about two hundred and fifty miles towards the south-east. At the rate of 
about twenty-five miles a day, which would be the average for horsemen in this 
part, it would be just ten stages from Lhasa, and about three hnndred and sixty 
miles northwards of Darjiling. We must, however, allow for the physical changes 
of nearly four centuries. 
2 This evidently is the name which occurs in that of the Cho or lake to the 
south-west of the “ Chargut Cho.” 
3 It was by this route probably that Malik Ikhtiyaru-d-din, Muhammad, the 
Khalj Turk, son of Bakht-yaru-d-din, and conqueror of Bang-al (Bengal) invaded 
Tibbat from his capital, Lakhanawatl, at the close of the year 610 H. (1205 A.D.), 
as related in the Tabaqat-i-Ndfiri, pages 560-568. After he had passed “the 
