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mad Ali, was of Kipchak origin. He waged war
with Nasr Ullah, Amir of Bokhara, in pursuance of
an old family policy. Khokand had been incorpo
rated into the former state and had forcibly freed
itself, making alliance with Yarkand and certain
neighbouring States now included within the Chinese
dominions; and the consequence was a kind of
chronic animosity between Khokand and Bokhara.
Although the two hostile Khans above mentioned
had died, that is the Bokhara chief had killed the
chief of Khokand, and the survivor had been carried
off by sickness, the contest was continued by their
successors, and up to 1863 there seems to have been
fighting without cessation. Peace was only obtained
at that period by the division of the Khanate into
two Governments, each under a grandson of Muha-
mad Ali. The wars with Russia will be spoken of
under the head of Russian Turkistan.
YARKAND.
From the town of Ush, on the eastern frontier of
the Khanate of Khokand, to Kashgar is a ten days'
journey over a mountainous country.* And a few
marches farther in a south-easterly direction bring
us to Yarkand and the countries immediately north
of Cashmir and British India. Time will not allow
of any detailed account of the interesting region of
* Vambery.