The Nāṣirī Generations 258.3.6

258.3.6

It has been asserted that the Makrits were entirely annihilated on this occasion, but such is not correct, as I shall presently show, and Kodu, brother of the late Bigi, Tutta, and Tuk-Tughan, who is also called the brother of the same chief, have been mistaken for one and the same person, of which there is no probability, for Tuk-Tughan, and the remnant of the Makrit tribe were encountered by Juji Khan, in the northern part of the present territory of Kashghar in 615 H., after the death of Koshluk, and when the Chingiz Khan was on his way westward to invade the territory of Sultan Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah, and when Juji, against his will, sustained the attack of the Sultan’s army in which his own was roughly handled. To demonstrate this clearly, it is necessary to go back a little, and refer to what is said about it elsewhere. When Koshluk, the Naeman, left the presence of the Gur Khan, his father-in-law, to call around him his dispersed Naemans, and proceeded towards Bhalik, when he reached its confines and that of I-mil, Tuk-Tughan, the Amir of the Makrits, who had fled—from whence is not mentioned on hearing the rumour of the Chingiz Khan’s fury, joined him, together with many of the Gur Khan’s chiefs. During the time that Koshluk exercised dominion over the state of the Gur Khan, however, after the latter’s seizure by him, Tuk-Tughan, with the remainder of the tribe of Makrit, had separated from Koshluk, and returned to Kum-Kunjak again.