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of Eastern TurJcistan . 
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He prayed, a thunder-storm arose, water flowed down from the moun¬ 
tains, rain fell from Heaven ; it placed the faces of the Musalmaus in the 
direction of the ‘ Qibla’ ; it turned the infidels’ bodies face downwards, and 
carried away the heads of the unbelievers. 
Then they took the Holy Imams’ sacred bodies, and placed them in 
coffins. The other Musalmans’ bodies they buried. 
The date was five hundred and ninety-six [a. d. 1199]. On the 10th 
day of the month Zi-’l Hajjah, a Monday, the Holy Imams drank of the 
sherbet of martyrdom. 
“ But God knows best what is the truth. 
Note on the Ujatliqs. 
[In the “ Report of a Mission to Yarkand under Sir I). Forsyth, K. C. 
S. I.” (Calcutta 1875) in the History of Kashghar, p. 127, Dr. Bellew on 
the authority of the “ Tazkira Bughra Khan” with reference to a passage 
translated in Extract XV (above), says: “A poor and aged Jdtlic — Christian 
priest.came forward as a candidate for the offered reward.” Now al¬ 
though it is not to be denied that there were Nestorian Christians in Eastern 
Turkistan at that time and later, I cannot think that there is any reference 
to them in the present text. The word in my copy of the work (Tazkiratu- 
’1-Bughra) is distinctly “ Ujatliq”, and besides the evidence given in 
the note at the place (see above), I find the name “ Ujat” occurring as the 
name of a town or village in a modern song called “the Maids of Turkistan,” 
extending to 22 lines and celebrating the peculiarities of the maidens of 
different towns of Kashgharia. The following will suffice as a specimen: 
iSxj (L&JtHSjb Jjl ~ Sr 
l, * # # * 
^ 
* l 3 ^v ^sj^y L -^ 
Which may be rendered thus : 
“ Straight and slender-waisted are the maids of Kashghar. 
“ Short, with sack-like figures, are the maids of Yangi-Hisar. 
“ A goitre above, fat below, (such) are the maids of Yarkand. 
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* This saving clause is added by the transcriber. It is of course Arabic. 
