within the reign of the Chaghatai Khan, Buzun, and at a time
when no Khan was reigning in Moghulistan. As far as can be |
gathered from the imperfect chronology of those times, as -
furnished by Mirza Haidar's history, Isán Bugha, the first -
Moghul Khan, was already dead, and the second, 'Tugbluk. 1
Timur, had not yet succeeded him. Probably Amir Bulaji -
the Dughlát, was the Ulusbegi, or chief of the tribe, and he, as —
we are told, was a Musulman of very recent date. Whether.
the disappearance of the friars had any conneetion with the
rise of Islam in the country at that time, or with the general -
disorder that prevailed, can only be a matter of conjecture. |
All that is certain is that no other European is heard of in
Central Asia till the embassy of huy Gonzalez Clavijo from —
Henry III. of Spain to the Court of Timur, which reached
Samarkand in 1404, or about a year before Timur's death. The
narrative of this embassy, however, does not relate to the part  -
of Central Ásia now alluded to, but to the centre of the king- ^
doms, mentioned above, as forming a barrier against the mis-
rule of the barbarous nomads farther east. Don Buys
narrative therefore cannot be utilised to throw hght on the
obscurities of Mirza Haidar's history, for all that the Táréikh-i-
Rashd? relates concerning Transoxiana is amply elucidated by.
