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{yusunluq) his high family {khanwadalar) must have come to be the Refuge {marji') and Pontiffs {Shaikhu'l-islam) of the (Farghana) country.
and the begs in the fort heard of (the intended departure), they sent after us Khwaja Muhammad, the tailor,^ an old servant {bayri) of my father and the foster-father of one of his daughters. He dispelled our fears and, turning back from near the Praying Place, took me with him into the citadel (ark) where I dis- mounted. Khwaja Maulana-i-qazi and the begs came to my presence there and after bringing their counsels to a head,'^ busied themselves in making good the towers and ramparts of the fort.^ A few days later, Hasan, son of Yaq'ub, and Qasim Quchin, arrived, together with other begs who had been sent to reconnoitre in Marghinan and those parts.4 They also, after waiting on me, set themselves with one heart and mind and with zeal and energy, to hold the fort.
Meantime SI. Ahmad Mirza took Aura-tipa, Khujand and Marghinan, came on to Qaba,^ 4 yighach from Andijan and there made halt. At this crisis, Darwesh Gau, one of the Andijan notables, was put to death on account of his improper proposals ; his punishment crushed the rest.
Khwaja Qazi and Auzun (Long) Hasan,6 (brother) of Khwaja Husain, were then sent to SI. Ahmad Mirza to say in effect that, as he himself would place one of his servants in the country and as I was myself both a servant and (as) a son, he would attain his end most readily and easily if he entrusted the service to me. He was a mild, weak man, of few words who, without his begs, decided no opinion or compact {aim)^ action
descendant of Satuq-bughra Khan (b. 384 AH. -994 AD.) so that in Khwaja Qazi were united two dynasties, [khanwadalar), one priestly, perhaps also regal, the other of bye-gone ruling Khans. Cf. D'Herbelot p. 433 ; Yarkand Mission, Bellew p. 121 ; Tazkirat-i Sultan Satuq-bughra Khan Ghazi Padshah and Tdrikh-i-ndsiri (Raverty s.n.)
1 darzi ; H.S. khaiyat.
2 bir yirga [quyub), lit. to one place.
3 i.e. reconstructed the earthen defences. Cf. Von Schwarz s.n. loess.
4 They had been sent, presumably, before 'Umar Shaikh's death, to observe SI. Ahmad M.'s advance. Cf. f. 6.
5 The time-table of the Andijan Railway has a station, Kouwa (Qaba),
6 Babur, always I think, calls this man Long Hasan ; Khwand -amir styles him Khwaja Hasan ; he seems to be the brother of one of 'Umar Shaikh's fathers -in -law, Khwaja Husain.
