NOTE 8.–Yet scarcely any country in the world has suffered so terribly
and repeatedly from invasion. ‘Enduring decay probably commenced with the
wars of Chinghiz, for many an instance in Eastern history shows the
permanent effect of such devastations…. Century after century saw only
progress in decay. Even to our own time the progress of depopulation and
deterioration has continued.’ In 1759, two of the Khojas of Kashgar,
escaping from the dominant Chinese, took refuge in Badakhshan; one died of
his wounds, the other was treacherously slain by Sultan Shah, who then
ruled the country. The holy man is said in his dying moments to have
invoked curses on Badakhshan, and prayed that it might be three times
depopulated; a malediction which found ample accomplishment. The misery of
the country came to a climax about 1830, when the Uzbek chief of Kunduz,
Murad Beg Kataghan, swept away the bulk of the inhabitants, and set them
down to die in the marshy plains of Kunduz. (_Cathay_, p. 542; _Faiz
Bakhsh_, etc.)
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