[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) › 9.3.5 # The Rashīdī History 9.3.5 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 9.3.5 - **Language:** English ### [9.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.3.5) Mansur had been chief of Aksu, which province had been invaded and conquered by Mirza Aba Bakr of Kashghar, and the chief had migrated to Turfan with the whole of his tribe and family. The number of the tribe is not stated, but the advent of a large body of Moghuls, together with the Khan, can hardly have failed to prove a source of increased strength to the Khanate, and would point rather to unification than the reverse. Perhaps if any explanation of so curious a discrepancy may be hazarded, it might be found in the abuse of the tribute missions. As the Ming dynasty declined and approached its fall, the practice of encouraging counterfeit missions seems to have become common; and towards the end of the sixteenth century, and at the beginning of the seventeenth, they came much into vogue among the States bordering on the west of China. This fact stands out with special clearness in the narrative of Benedict Goes, who travelled from Lahore to China in the years 1603-1604, and who died at the frontier town of Suchou, in Kansu, after passing through Yarkand, Aksu, Turfan and Enmul. The account of his journey is, indeed, a meagre one, for the greater part of his journal was lost at the time of his death. Some fragments, however, were recovered and passed into the hands of one of the ablest of the Jesuit missionaries then at Peking — Father Matthew Ricci — who compiled from them the story of Goes' adventures. - [Previous: 9.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.3.4) - [Next: 9.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.3.6) - [Up: 9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.3.5) · Pramāṇa