of Eastern Tur'kistan . 
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One day the Holy Sultan went out a-hunting. Going along hunting 
he arrived at a place called JBacpi in Lower Artush. He looked ; (and saw 
that) several men of pleasing appearance and of pure disposition had encamped 
on a grassy spot. The Holy Sultan, with his companions, started in the di¬ 
rection of these travellers. 
Having looked, they were astonished saying : “ In these cities there 
were not (ever) such people, such men. What people are these ? Come ! 
let us go and see.” (Thus) saying they moved on. 
But these travellers* * * § w6re the Holy Kh’ajah Abu-an-nasr Samani 
(and his company). Abu-an-nasrf looks^ : several horsemen are coming. 
They came near. He looks (again) : it must be the Holy Satuq Bughra 
Khan (whose mention he had) seen in the History (of the Prophet’s say¬ 
ings). 
On seeing (him) Abu-an-nasr said : “ Thanks be to God, (the object 
of) my petition has been obtained,”§ and he rejoiced exceedingly. 
Immediately he said to his servants : “ The Lord of the present and 
future worlds, (the object of) my desire comes. Or rather, the reason of 
my coming to this country was because of this noble person. Oh servants ! 
leave the baggage open,” (so) saying, with Abu-an-nasr leading, all the 
travellers stood up to prayer. Having finished their prayer, they came 
back to their places and sat down. Till that time the Sultan remained on 
the back of his horse. 
The Sultan, astonished, said: “ (These) are[j wonderful travellers; 
without caring for us, leaving their baggage open, they have become occu¬ 
pied in striking their heads on the ground.” 
He was (saying) these words, (when) Abu-an-nasr came seven steps 
of ground into the presence of the Sultan, and made a salutation. The 
Sultan, getting off his horse, went to meet the Kh’ajah Abu-an-nasr. The 
Kh’ajah invited^" the Sultan and brought (him) with honour and respect 
to the place (where he was) sitting ; bringing out his best goods by pairs 
to the Sultan, he placed these choice things in (his) presence. 
Then the Sultan with heart and soul accepted (the attentions of) the 
* Karwan is used in Central Asia to mean one of the persons composing what we 
should call a “ caravan,” and not to mean the entire assemblage, as is indeed evident 
from the word in the text being in the plural. 
f The long titles are omitted for brevity. 
I The “ historic present.” 
§ The word “ de’p” (having said), which comes in here, may be taken as answer¬ 
ing to our inverted commas. 
|| DuJc for clur (respectful form). 
II TaJclif qelmclq , a common Oriental expression for “to invite”, Cf, French “ don- 
nez vous la peine d’entrer.” 
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