The Nāṣirī Generations 251.8

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After Kabal had departed, the Altan Khan was blamed for letting him go so easily, and messengers were sent to recall him. He refused to return, upon which the Altan Khan sent a party after him to compel him to do so. They came up with him whilst he was stopping in the camp of a friend named Sanjuti. Kabal was for going back with them, but his friend lent him a very swift horse he possessed, and advised him to fly. This certainly does not bespeak the powerful sovereign. He at once mounted and made off for his own yurat or camp. The party still pursued, but only found him after he had reached his home and people. He then, with the assistance of San-juli and the tribe, put the whole of the Altan Khan's men to death. At this period also, the eldest son of Kabal, whose name was Ukin or 'Okain-Barkak—also written Ukin-Barkak—while out on an excursion, was fallen in with, suddenly, by a tribe of the Tattar I-mak, their mortal enemies—some say Ukin-Barkak was following the tracks of the Ghuzz Turk-mans at the time—who carried him off to the Altan Khan, who put him to death. Here was a fresh cause of feud between the already inveterate foes, the Mughal and Tattar Turks. Some few writers, as I have just noticed above, say he was called Hamangha or Hamankha, thus showing that it was merely one person who was thus put to death, and that those writers divided one event into two.