The Nāṣirī Generations 247.5

247.5

The Kankuli tribes dwelt in the same tracts as the Turk-mans for some time, in the sandy desert, but, on a great movement among the latter, and some of them taking up their residence in towns and villages, the Kankulis left them, and pitched their tents about the Talash river, and Issigh-Kol, or the Issigh Lake, but the greater part of those who continued there were massacred by the Chingiz Khan on account of their relationship by marriage to the Khwarazmi Sultans. The movement of the Karlughs is connected with that of the Ghuzz already mentioned in note page 374, which see. The other tribes of the Turks, not being so much mixed up with the events of Western Asia and frontiers of Hind, at the period of our author's history, need not be referred to here, as the details would make this account much longer than necessary.