The Nāṣirī Generations 263.2.4

263.2.4

Now, at this rate of 400 men, each individual Mughal must, on the average, have killed, during the night and following day, just 230 souls, which is as incredible as it is ridiculous to expect any sane person to believe it, and, even assuming that these barbarian butchers numbered 4000, each one must have slain, on the average, thirty-two persons. Taking the fighting men at 12,000, and the average number of each family at from five to six persons, each furnishing one fighting man, 70,000 is not beyond the mark. The Mughals captured likewise 60,000 quadrupeds — oxen and camels — besides innumerable sheep, and proceeded to join Tuli’s camp. This account reads like a page out of Mr. Eugene Schuyler’s work, or a leaf from the annals of the "Christian" and "knightly warfare" in Asia Minor and European Turkey in 1878: the Turkmans of that day, like the Turkmans of this, were treated a la Kaufmann, and the whole proceedings were carried out in true "Circassian style." I would observe here, however, with respect to some strange theories respecting the origin of the name "Turkomen," in the "Geographical Magazine," for 1875, there would be some difficulty to find such a word in any oriental writer whosoever.