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HISTORY OF THE KHOJAS OF EASTERN TURKISTAN. 
Yahya. Akbash Khan then retired with the remainder of Afak’s family 
to India, 23 having first sent for Danyal Khwaja from Khojand, stating 
that his ancestors bad always been disciples of Danyal’s ancestors. Danyal 
set out and was well received by the Kir gh iz. The Kashghar people, 
however, held out for their own religions leaders; so the Kir gh iz took him 
on to Yarqand, where he was accepted as spiritual Chief. 
At Kash gh ar, Khwaja Ahmad was the nominal Kban, but the real 
rulers were some Kir gh iz Chiefs who carried on a series of raids against 
the inhabitants of Yarqand. Not having any King of their own, the 
Yarqand people brought in a Kazak Kban, called Hashim Sultan, to reign 
over and defend them. In one of their raids, the Kirghiz approached 
the town. Hashim, though taken unawares, sallied forth, slew r one of the 
leaders and dispersed the rest. Next day the Kirghiz began to treat for 
the surrender of their chief, thinking he w T as still alive, but a prisoner; 
and they promised to give up three hundred Yarqand prisoners in 
exchange for him. The Yarqandis, in order to secure this advantage, 
dressed up the dead man and set him on a horse, tied to a plank. The 
Kirghiz saw him from a distance and said to one another“ He hangs 
down his head : he is ashamed at having fallen into the hands of the Sarts. 24 
The deceit was successful, for the Yarqand! prisoners had been given up, 
and the dead body of their chief was all that the Kirghiz got. After this 
lesson they ceased their attacks on Yarqand. 
In consequence of the intrigues of the devotees of Danyal Hashim, the 
Kazak Chief retired from the government of Yarqand and returned to 
his own country, on which Danyal became ruler of Yarqand for several 
years. 
Whereas the Qalmaqs of Ila had been attacked by Hazrat Afaq and 
Muhammad Amin, the king of Yarqand, they had preserved a desire 
for revenge, but were prevented from taking it by troubles of their own. 
Now, at last, they found an opportunity, in the confusion reigning among 
the Musulmans, and with a large army they marched to Kashghar 
and thence, without stopping, to Yarqand. Khwaja Danyal finding 
himself too weak to resist, accepted the rule of the infidels; and they, 
38 Here again there is a discrepancy. The author’s text makes Khwaia Mahdi, ar.d 
not Akbash Khan, retire to India. Both in this case and that of the note above 
Mr. Shaw seems to have followed “ the other book.” Akbash was obviously at Yarqand 
throughout these events, and Muhammad Sadiq makes Mabdi take leave of him before 
setting out for India. 
24 The Saits are the cultivators and townsmen of the lowlands, as distinguished 
from the Nomads of the hill regions; the word has no ethnographic meaning. 
