The Nāṣirī Generations 256.4.9

256.4.9

In Astley's Collection Bish-Baligh is said to be 26° W. of Pekin, and rather more than 44° N. of the equator, and about a degree N. of Turfan while Kara-Khuram is said to be 10° W. from Pekin, and about the same distance as Bish-Baligh, N. of the line. The I-ghur country formerly seems to have included the provinces of Turfan and Khamil, or at least the middle portion near Turfan, within eight or nine leagues of which was their capital called Ho-chew by the Chinese, but, as previously mentioned, the mountain [range] of Kara-Kuram was about the centre of it. Whether Ho-chew is Bish-Baligh—which was a well known place long after the Mughal invasion—or whether the last was another capital to the N. of Turfan, as Gaubil mentions, is difficult to say. The I-ghurs were masters of a portion of the adjacent parts of Tartary to the sources of the Irtish and Mount Altai [Altan mountains], as were the Karghiz.