Kashmir and Kashgar (e-book) (used book) | H W Bellew | bookbook.eu

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...himself of the rule over the nomads there. Having done this, he in 1499 turned his arms against Ababakar, and seizing Kashghar, wintered there. His attack upon Yarkand in the ensuing spring failed, and he was driven back to the steppes in disorder. On the death of Ahmad two or three years later at Acsu, his son and successor Mansur, aged sixteen years, quarrelled with his younger brothers as to the division of the heritage, and one of them appealing for aid to Ababakar he marched against Acsu. Mansur retired before him to the steppes, and the invader, seizing the place, plundered the treasures accumulated by Ahmad, and, dismantling the fortifications, returned to his capital. After this, when Sa'id, returning from Kabul with Babur, was sent to take possession of Andijan, Ababakar, seizing the opportunity of the confusion there, invaded the country to recover it for Kashghar, as part of the government of his ancestor Bolaji, but he was defeated, and compelled to beat a hasty retreat. He was so enraged at the failure of his troops, that, under the accusation of treachery, he executed more than three thousand of them with most horrible tortures and mutilations. On Sa'id's expulsion from Andijan a few years later, he revenged himself on Ababakar by that invasion which gave him the country, and relieved its people from the cruelties of their heartless ruler. Ababakar himself was so mistrustful of the loyalty of his subjects that, on the approach of his enemy, he razed to the ground the ancient city of Kashghar, and hastily raising the fortifications of the present city a little higher up on the river bank placed a garrison in it, and himself retired to Yarkand with the entire population of the destroyed city. His newly built fortifications were...