[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 139.5 # The Rashīdī History 139.5 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 139.5 - **Language:** English ### [139.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.139.5) After the discovery of this treasure, Mirzá Abá Bakr urged forward the men employed at the Kázik, to work with greater diligence and care than before, and several other treasures were brought to light in the old cities of Káshghar, Yarkand, and Khotan. The mode of operations at the Kázik was as follows: eighteen or twenty prisoners, more or less, were secured together by a chain running from one to the other, at their backs, through a collar fastened round the neck of each. In their hands they carried spades \[kaland\]. They laboured both summer and winter. \[During the day they worked\] and at night they were put into a prison. If the prisoner's offence was very grave, neither friends, relations, nor strangers were allowed to speak to him or give him anything. So that not even one of the same gang \[chain\] as himself was able to tell him a story. There was an overseer to every gang, and over every eighteen of the overseers was another person, and there was one man at the head of the whole of the Kázik. If any one of these overseers, whether superior or inferior, in the slightest degree neglected his duty with regard to the convicts, as in freeing, commanding, urging them on, or throwing them into prison, and the like, he was himself consigned to a gang of convicts. Moreover, such was the strictness of discipline, that the overseers never dared to show any leniency. In fact, they could never speak a word, except officially. - [Previous: 139.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.139.4) - [Next: 139.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.139.6) - [Up: 139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.139) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.139.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.139.5) · Pramāṇa