favoured by the nomination of a
city governor, who would be agreeable to Buzurg Khan and his vizier,
Yakoob Beg. It is suggestive to watch how the name of the vizier
occupies almost as prominent place in all their addresses as that of his
master. The Tungan governor in the Yarkand Yangyshahr, not to be
behindhand in his worship of the rising sun, immediately sent a similar
expression of obedience to Kashgar.

The course of events once more takes us back to Kashgar, where the
Chinese still held the citadel against all comers. But with each fresh
success of Yakoob Beg over his numerous opponents, and with the spread
of the Tungan power into Jungaria, hope almost completely deserted the
unfortunate Khitay, who, in this solitary fort, alone maintained the
name of Chinese authority. Treason, within the walls, was now to aid the
efforts from without. Kho Dalay, the superior officer in the citadel,
although not the commandant, came to an arrangement with Yakoob Beg, by
which honourable terms were conceded to the garrison; and 3,000 Khitay
troops surrendered and settled in Kashgar. They were required to
acknowledge formally the supremacy of the Khoja, and to make a
profession of Islamism. But they were never really interfered with in
the observance of their own rites among themselves, and had nothing to
complain of in their duty. They were called after their recantation
"Yangy Mussulmans," or "New Mussulmans." These were the last Khitay
troops who surrendered to the new conquerors, and with them every
vestige of Chinese authority disappeared from every part of Jungaria and
Eastern Turkestan. Even among this garrison, reduced by a long siege and
its attendant deprivations to despair, there was a small minority who
preferred death to the dishonour involved in surrender. Chang Tay, the
commandant, refused to be any party to the arrangement made between Kho
Dalay and Yakoob Beg. When the day approached for the entry of the
Kashgarian army, this resolute Amban withdrew to his palace, and having
collected his family and dependents around him blew them all up with the
explosion of a mine that he had constructed underneath. In the confusion
that arose from this incident, the enemy broke into the fort, and it was
not for some hours that Yakoob Beg succeeded in obtaining control over
them once more. During that interval of insubordination many Khitay were
murdered, but not without resistance. Kho Dalay and almost 3,000 men
remained to ta