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They got out from the desert on the sixteenth of Rabiya-al-awal, and arrived at the city of Khoten on the ninth of Jomada-al-akher. Continuing their journey from thence, they came to the city of Kashgar on the sixth of Rajeb.
As this year is lunar, the months run through all the seasons, for want of a properly regulated kalendar, or a period like the Julian or Gregorian. To enable the reader to understand the journal, we give the Persian names of the months in their order: 1. Moharram; 2. Safar; 3. Rabiya-al-awal, or Prior; 4, Rabiya-al-Akher, or Latter; 5. Jomada-al- awal; 6. Jomada-al-akher; 7. Rajeb; 8. Shaaban; 9.
On the first of the month Rabiya-al-awal, the ambassadors were again called to court before the emperor, who had several Shankars brought in, which he said he meant to give to those who had presented him with good horses; and at this time, he caused three to be given to each of the ambassadors of the Mirza Ulug-Beg, Mirza Baysangar, and Sultan Shah-Rokh.
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