The Rashīdī History 237.3

237.3

I halted for some days in that pasture-ground, until the beasts were rested and refreshed. I then sent back all the booty that had fallen into our hands, and having chosen out 900 men from the army, set forth with them for Ursang. From Maryul of Tibet to that place is two months' journey. After one month's journey, one comes to a spot where a lake is situated ; it is forty farsakhs in circumference, and on its shores there is a castle, which is called Luk-u-Labuk. We halted there for the night ; the next morning we found all our horses had died, except a few that were half dead — groaning and writhing [with pain]. Thus of my own twenty-seven horses, only one was, on that morning, in a sound condition, two others were dying, and the remaining twenty-four were dead. The cause [of their death] was the dam-giri, which has been described above.