The Nāṣirī Generations 258.1.4

258.1.4

This place is the Gheucserai of Petis de la Croix. I must now endeavour to give a short account of the different operations of the Mughal hordes, in order to bring up events to the siege of Samrkand. I have already mentioned in my previous notes, page 268, and page 964, how Juji fell in with the Khwarazmi army in the northern part of the present Kashghar territory, and, after a severe handling, his marching away, leaving his camp fires burning, so as to avoid pursuit. He subsequently, by command of his father, marched towards Jand, and, when he arrived near Sighnak on the way thither, he despatched the Haji, Hasan, who was a native of that place, and then with his army, as an envoy, to endeavour to induce the inhabitants to submit. The populace, however, put him to death for advising them to submit to infidels and Mughals, and Juji, filled with rage at the treatment of his emissary, attacked the place, and, in two days, captured it. The inhabitants were massacred and the place ruined [this is a mode of treating them “with tenderness,” certainly, after the Muskov fashion. Mongols Proper, page 76], and a son of the Haji, Hasan, who was dwelling there, was made its governor — the governor of a desolated place!