The Nāṣirī Generations 258.1.1

258.1.1

Trustworthy persons have related on thiswise, that, when that fugitive [camel-driver] stated to the Chingiz Khan, the accursed, what had befallen his traders and emissaries, the Chingiz Khan issued commands so that the forces of Turkistan, Chin, and Tamghaj, assembled. Six hundred banners were brought out, and under each banner were one thousand horsemen, and six hundred thousand horses were assigned to the Bahadurs: they call a warrior, Bahadur. To every ten horsemen three head of tukli sheep were given, with orders to dry them; and they took, along with them, an iron cauldron, and a skin of water; and the host proceeded on its way. From the place where the Mughals then were, on the frontier of the Chingiz Khan's territory, to Utrar, was a three months' march, entirely through wild and uncultivated tracts; and it was commanded that it was necessary to perform that march of three months, and subsist upon this quantity of provision, and to eke it out with the milk of their mares; and, placing herds of horses in front of them, so numerous that their numbers cannot be computed, they turned their faces towards the land of Islam.