The Nāṣirī Generations 287.2.2

287.2.2

At this place, in Alfi, an anecdote is related respecting the discovery of hinna as a remedy for the disease which affected the defenders of several great fortresses, as our author relates, and which, from his account at page 1124, appears to have been scurvy or something very much like it. It is that the daughter of the Amir of that fortress was going to be married, and, on the night of the consummation of the marriage, the custom was to dye the bride's hands and feet with hinna. This was done ; and, those who applied the dye having afterwards washed their hands, some of the pestilence-stricken people, on account of the scarcity of water, drank that water, and recovered in a wonderfully short time. This seems but another version of our author’s account of the cure wrought by hinna in his description of the investment of Uk of Sistan, at the page above mentioned. I must now return to the movements of Hulaku. Before setting out for Iran-Zamin, he took leave of his brother Mangu, and his nephews, in order to return to his own urdus, where his wives and children were. Mangu Ka’an, before parting with him, gave him much wise counsel for his guidance. He enjoined him to observe the laws and ordinances of the Chingiz Khan ;