trouble to the new government. For more than eighteen months he was
permitted to remain however, and then, being detected in instigating the
murder of Yakoob Beg, was banished to Tibet. After wandering for some
years, he found his way to Khokand, where he is believed to be still
residing with a large family. He may be considered to have been the last
Khoja prince ruling Kashgar, for it is scarcely probable that, in any
future settlement of that country, a restoration of the old reigning
family will be supported by any one. He is no exaggerated type of the
rule among Central Asian despots, who present to our gaze a long series
of petty tyrants and debauchees, until for a few years they are
displaced by a successful soldier such as the Athalik Ghazi, or by a
skilful minister such as Mussulman Kuli was in Khokand.

The Kirghiz chief, Sadic Beg, did not long hold out against the
consolidated power of Yakoob Beg; and the Kucha movements were
suspended. In a little more than twelve months Yakoob Beg had occupied
Kashgar, Yangy Hissar, and Yarkand. Sirikul and Khoten also acknowledged
his rule; but his further operations against them will be narrated
by-and-by. He felt now so secure in his seat that he permitted the
Badakshi contingent to return home, presenting each soldier with a large
present. Ever since that time Yakoob Beg seems to have maintained some
influence in Badakshan, and to have been inclined on several occasions
to compete with Shere Ali of Afghanistan for the possession of that
province. His ambition was never fully revealed in this quarter; but it
is certain that Shere Ali regarded him with scarcely concealed suspicion
and dislike.

With the assumption of personal power by Yakoob Beg, on the deposition
of the Khoja Buzurg Khan, the first part of the enterprise undertaken in
the later days of 1864 was brought to a termination. In the more
extended operations of Yakoob Beg against the Tungani and Khoten, may be
perceived the effects of events outside his immediate sphere upon, this
energetic ruler, who, until his last years, never realized the strength
of the Russians, and who had, up to the year 1870 when Kuldja was
occupied, convinced himself that he could retard the progress of the
great Northern power. It was that idea, besides a thirst for military
renown and excitement, that urged him on to the construction of what he
fondly believed might prove a formidable and extensive state. As ruler
of Kashgar, he c