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They were very kindly received; for, although Genghis Khan was not prepared at present to make open war upon Gurkhan, or to invade his dominions in pursuit of Prince Kushluk, he was intending to do this at some future day, and, in the mean time, he was very glad to weaken his enemy by drawing off from his empire any tributary tribes that were at all disposed to revolt from him.
Idikut's quarrel with Gurkhan's tax-gatherers. Rebellion. He sends to Genghis Khan. His reception of the embassy. Idikut's visit to Genghis Khan. Gurkhan in a rage. Jena. Subsequent history of Kushluk. Kushluk's final defeat and flight. Hotly pursued by Jena. Kushluk's death. Genghis Khan's triumph.
The country through which it flows lay to the northwestward of Genghis Khan's dominions, and beyond the confines of it. Through this country Prince Kushluk and Tukta Bey wandered on, accompanied by the small troop of followers that still adhered to them, until they reached a certain fortress called Ardish, where they determined to make a stand.
The bird was presented to Genghis Khan by Urus with great ceremony, as an act of submission and homage. What, in the end, was the fate of Prince Kushluk, will appear in the next chapter. Idikut. The old system of farming revenues. Evils of farming the revenue. Modern system. Disinterested collectors. Independent and impartial courts. Waste of the public money. Shuwakem.
His son, the Prince Kushluk, fought valiantly during the whole day, but toward night, finding that all was lost, he fled, taking with him as many of the troops as he could succeed in getting together in the confusion, and at the head of this band made the best of his way into the dominions of one of his uncles, his father's brother, where he hoped to find a temporary shelter until he should have time to determine what was to be done.
But, although Boyrak himself was thus taken and slain, Kushluk and Tukta Bey succeeded in making their escape. They fled to the northward and westward, scarcely knowing, it would seem, where they were to go. They at last found a place of refuge on the banks of the River Irtish. This river rises not far from the centre of the Asiatic continent, and flows northward into the Northern Ocean.
Yemuka was chief in command on Tayian's side. He was assisted by a young prince, the son of Tayian, whose name was Kushluk. On the other hand, Jughi, the young son of Temujin, who had been brought forward at the council, was appointed to a very prominent position on his father's side.
There was another great and powerful khan, named Idikut, whose tribe had hitherto been under the dominion of Gurkhan, the Prince of Turkestan, where Kushluk had sought refuge, but who about this time revolted from Gurkhan and went over to Genghis Khan, under circumstances which illustrate, in some degree, the peculiar nature of the political ties by which these different tribes and nations were bound to each other.
The young Prince Jughi. Council of war. Yemuka and Tayian. Temujin crosses the frontier. His advance. Preparations for battle. Kushluk and Jughi. Great battle. Temujin again victorious. Tayian killed. Yemuka is beheaded.
Kushluk escapes again. Turkestan. He is received by Gurkhan. Presentation of the shongar. Urus Inal. Prince Kushluk, as the reader will perhaps recollect, was the son of Tayian, the khan of the Naymans, who organized the grand league of khans against Temujin at the instigation of Yemuka, as related in a preceding chapter.
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