The Rashīdī History 7.1.2

7.1.2

Moreover, there was at no time any one name in use, which served to designate the entire Khanate. Mirza Haidar usually speaks of 'Moghulistan' and 'Kashghar,' but it is not always clear whether, by 'Kashghar,' he means only the city and district of that name, or the entire province of Alti-Shahr—the Six Cities of Eastern Turkistan—a region which, he tells us more than once, was, when combined with Farghana, termed Mangalai Suyah or "Facing the Sun." This territory would almost exactly correspond to the provinces of Farghana and the Chinese Turkistan of modern times, less the districts of Karashahr, Turfan and Hami in the extreme east; or, in other words, to Farghana and Alti-Shahr. But even if we were to give the entire country the double name of "Moghulistan and Mangalai Suyah," there would still remain some difficulties of definition. At first sight it would appear that the author describes the limits very exactly; but this is not quite the case, and for two reasons. In the first place, he sets forth the provinces that composed it on several occasions, but does not always make them the same: the other is that, in common with all Asiatics who attempt to describe an area, he names a district or a geographical feature as a boundary, but does not mention whether it should be included or excluded—whether the limiting district, range or lake lay beyond or within the area he is describing.