Caunter, John Hobart [Editor]: The oriental annual: containing a series of tales, legends, & historical romances (1837)

118 lives of the moghul emperors.

nicle is altogether silent concerning it, I am inclined to
believe that it is an agreeable fiction invented by the
Greeks, who were the enemies of Bayazeed. It would
seem that they had a pleasure in representing the cap-
tivity of this unfortunate prince as attended with
circumstances the most gratifying to their vindictive
feelings."

The career of the Jagatay emperor was everywhere
signally successful. The whole of Egypt was subdued,
Georgia again ravaged. From the Irtish, a great river
of northern Asia which rises in Independent Tartary,
and the Wolga to the Persian gulf, and from the Ganges
to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the
hands of Timur. He threatened with his invincible
hosts the nations of Christendom, who already trembled
at his name; but he had no naval force, and was there-
fore unable to transport his victorious legions to the
shores of Europe. Flushed with the conquest of so
many countries and of such extensive regions, he re-
turned to Samerkund in the month Moharrum a. h.
807, or July a. d. 1404.