The Rashīdī History 112.1.7

112.1.7

The Khan told me: "After the Mirzá's flight we were so overcome with apprehension, that sixteen of us having banded together, we fled from Samarkand, and journeyed by way of Khutuk and Kara Tukai to Sairam. Thence we went on to Moghulistan by way of Uzun Ahmad, and arrived at Haft Deh, which is better known as Yatikand, where Sultan Mahmud Khan was living at the time." It has been already related that after the death of Sultan Ahmad Khan, Sultan Mahmud Khan came into Moghulistan. The latter was a weakly prince and very lax and careless in the affairs of State. Now Moghulistan is a country which does not admit of any such negligence and callousness in its administration, and for this reason Sultan Mahmud Khan was not able to remain there long, but came, with a desire to live a civilised life, to Yatikand, where there is [indeed] some cultivation. When he had been there a short time, the Khan went and attached himself to his uncle, Sultan Mahmud Khan. The Khan passed some time in the service of his uncle; but he was an energetic and enterprising man, and being unable to endure the negligence and indolence of his uncle, he fled from his court. Sultan Mahmud Khan sent a party after him to bring him back. After three days' march he was overtaken, when a fight ensued.