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HISTORY OF THE KHOJAS OF EASTERN TURKISTAN. 
After vain counsels, Khwaja Abdu-llah retired with his followers to 
Yarqand, and Khan Khoja entered Kashghar. He immediately prepared 
to follow up his success by advancing against Yarqand. He was accom¬ 
panied by a numberless force of Kashghar, Aksu and Ush men and of 
Kirghiz under Kubat Bi, to whom the government of Kashghar had been 
promised as a reward for success. 
Khwaja Jahan, at Yarqand, pitched his tents outside the city and 
called an assembly of chief men of the place, to whom, after a feast, he 
made a speech recounting the time he had spent among them as their 
ruler, and entreating their pardon for any offence that he might have 
given by word or deed. “ Now,” he added, “ we hear that a descendant of 
Hazrat Afaq has taken Kash gh ar with the help of the Chinese, and it is 
probable that he will also seek to become master of Yarqand. As it is 
not fitting that I and my family should submit to the rule of the infidels, 
we will carry out our long-formed desire of visiting the holy cities.” 
The chief men of Yarqand tried to dissuade him, saying that if he insisted 
on going, let him take them with him. Let him not throw them aside in 
this manner. They w T ould not consent to accept the rule of the descend¬ 
ants of Afaq, but would fight them if they would not remain content with 
Kash gh ar. 
Khwaja Jahan was persuaded to stay, and entrusted the defence of the 
town to Ghazi Beg, who had formerly betrayed him. A force of 3,000 men 
went out from Yarqand, with orders not to attack their brother Musul- 
mans of Kashghar, unless the latter should strike the first blow. But 
when the cavalry of the two armies began to skirmish the Kashgharis 
came on with cries of “ kait, kait ” (turnback, turnback). Khwaja Jahan 
was pleased when he heard the news of this, saying :—“ As they do not 
make ‘ Allah ’ their war-cry, we may fight them with a clear conscience. 
It had long been on my mind that it would not be lawful to attack troops 
who met us with cries of c Allah,’ ” and he gave orders for the advance. 
The Yarqandls fought so vigorously that the Kashghari force re¬ 
treated a tdsh 42 distance, and made their “ salams ” in the direction of 
Yarqand. A second time the Yarqand troops came out to the attack, 
and again proved victorious. They were in possession of two European 
rifles (JFrang Miltah') which could strike a mark at the distance of a tdsh : 
they had been the property of Khwaja Yusuf. Khwaja Burhanu-d-Hln, 
the Afaqi, was standing on the Bai-Dubba (or Tippa), a mound about half 
a mile from the Maskhara Darwaza (gate) on the east side of the city. A 
shot from the European gun, fired from the gate, struck his standard- 
43 The tdsji is a measure of distance, equal to about four miles. It is the Persian 
sang or faraakh. 
