The Rashīdī History 157.2

157.2

On the following day, when the troops of the east put to rout the army of the west, and in one moment seized the rays of the lights of the world [when the sun rose, etc. . . . Two couplets], they set out from Artuj and came to Uch Barkhan, a village near which the river Yutun Bashi [or Tuyun B.], which flows down from the valley of Kalik Kiya [or Kaba], must be crossed by travellers. There is some rising ground above it, from the top of which Kashghar, which is exactly three statute farsakhs distant, is visible. On this eminence Mirza Aba Bakr constructed a wall with battlements, reaching from the highest point of the hill down to the ravine which overhangs the river, and there he placed a gate. Implicit orders were issued that the commanders [torah] should take up their stand in that narrow passage [tangi] and count the army. The troops passed through the defile [tangi] regiment by regiment, and as they passed, the tavdji counted them and the scribes [bakhshi] wrote down the numbers. Besides those who stayed behind with the women and children and the baggage, and those who were strong enough to guard the roads, there were inscribed four thousand seven hundred and odd.