The Nāṣirī Generations 257.7.9

257.7.9

Another account is that the Altan Khan had given orders to ravage some parts of Kara-Khitae [i.e. north-west of, and beyond the Great Wall], on which the people sent agents to the Chingiz Khan at Kara-Kuram, and sought his protection, and the Khan of one of the disaffected parts, having gained possession of one of the fortresses guarding one of the entrances through the Great Wall, offered to admit the Mughals thereby. This statement is confused, and refers to the first, not the second expedition, as I have shown. However, it is farther stated that the Chingiz Khan thought the time propitious, and determined on invading the Altan Khan's dominions again, and that he proposed that his I-ghur and Karlugh allies should take a part in the expedition; but, being unable, through sickness—caused by the wound perhaps, referred to previously—to proceed himself, the command was given to Samukah, the Saljiut, his oldest Nu-yan.