The Nāṣirī Generations 257.2.7

257.2.7

One of the Awang Khan’s chiefs, Jadan, by name, who could keep nothing from his wife, was mentioning the design to her, in his Margah, or felt tent, only the day before it was intended to carry it into execution, when two boys, named Batae, or Badae, and Kashlik, came into the camp with the milk from the flocks, and, by chance, sat down near the tent, and heard the conversation. They at once made known his danger to Tamur-chi. He consulted with his kinsman, the Nu-yan, Karachi; and it was determined, as soon as night set in, to make for the skirt of the mountain (range) of Kalashin with their followers and dependents, and to leave their tents standing; and this they did, after having first despatched the women and children to a place of safety, called Baljunah Bulak. That same night the Awang Khan came to the tents with some of his forces, and, seeing the fires lighted as usual, ordered volleys of arrows to be poured into them, and then, finding all was silent within, entered the tents, but found them empty. He then determined to set out in pursuit of Tamur-chi; but how the Awang Khan knew whither he had fled is not stated: the Karayats probably tracked him. The Awang Khan succeeded in coming up with him during the next day, when halted for rest, and a picket.