As he much approved of my advice, he set out for the Desht Kipchāk, in order to quell the rebels, and left me in charge of Maveralnaher: he further wrote an agreement, stating that he had divided the kingdom with me in a brotherly manner, but this was a mere pretence to keep me quiet while he was engaged with the rebels.[20] ----- Footnote 17: The Translator has sometimes made use of the name Uzbek, by anticipation. Footnote 18: See first Design, page 15, Davy’s Institutes and Sequel. Footnote 19: An extensive region situated to the north of the Caspian Sea, bounded on the west by the Volga. Footnote 20: See first Design, Institutes. CHAPTER IV. Another of the auspicious omens predicting my future greatness, was this: in a dream I saw the Prophet Muhammed, “on whom be the Grace of God,” who congratulated me and said, “in consequence of the support you have given to my descendants, the Almighty has decreed that seventy-two of your posterity shall sit on the throne of Sovereignty.” When I awoke, I wrote all the particulars of this dream to my _Peer_, he replied by letter, “I congratulate you on this dream, your having seen the Prophet, (on whom be the grace of God) proves that you will certainly obtain numerous victories, and that many happy consequences will arise from this dream. As the Emperor Subuktageen, in consequence of his pity to a doe, (whose fawn he had caught and released) was honoured by a vision of the Prophet, who said to him, ‘in recompense of the pity that you this day shewed to the animal, the Almighty will bestow sovereignty on your posterity for many generations;’ how much more so will he bestow on you, who through compassion to the Syeds and other inhabitants of Maveralnaher, have delivered them from the cruel hands and slavery of the Jetes; doubtless your descendants shall reign for seventy-two generations.” To elucidate the circumstance, it becomes requisite to mention, that, when Tugleck Timūr Khān invaded Maveralnaher a second time, he sent me a friendly invitation, I therefore went to meet him, but he broke his promise (of confirming me as Governor of the province), and gave the country to his son Alyas Khuajē, and made me his Commander in Chief (Sepah Salar); but when he saw that I was dissatisfied, he produced the agreement engraven on steel, between my ancestor Kajuly Behader and Kubyl Khān, wherein it was stipulated that the dignity of _Khān_ should for ever continue in the posterity of Kubyl Khān, and that of Sepah Salar with the descendants of Kajuly Behader, and that they should never oppose each other;[21] when this agreement was read to me, in order to comply with its contents, I accepted the appointment of Commander in Chief; but as Alyas Khuajē had no talents for governing, and permitted his soldiers to extend the hand of rapine, the inhabitants of Maveralnaher came to me, and complained that the Jetes[22] had