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THE EMPEROR AKBAR

back, and had been forced to abandon, Fergháná: then he resolved, with a motley band of two to three hundred men, to march on Khorásán. It seemed madness, but the madness had a method. How he marched, and what was the result of his march, will be told in the next chapter.