Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 / translated from the Spanish by Guy Le Strange with an introduction.
- Ruy González de Clavijo
- Date:
- [1928]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 / translated from the Spanish by Guy Le Strange with an introduction. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and his sons are harboured by Timur; and meantime Idiku is engaged very piously in compassing to convert his Tartar folk to the Moslem religion. He is working day after day thereat, for up to now they have not been of this faith, having indeed accepted no particular form of religious belief though at lad forsooth they will all be of the sed of the Prophet Mahomet. As regards the Tartar army which every day and all day waits on the orders of Timur following his Highness wheresoever he goes, this is organized after the follow¬ ing fashion. The hod is divided into Captaincies: and there are captains of one hundred and of one thousand and of ten thousand men. Over the whole force is a single commander-in-chief, as with us may be the Condable of Cadile. When any warlike expedition is on foot those captains each are called on, and by the number sent for it is known how great the force assembled is to be. At the present day the commander-in-chief of Timur’s armies is [the prince his nephew mentioned on a former page]10 Jahán Sháh Mirza. He [and more particularly his father] in the pad gave notable support to Timur when he made war on that Khán of Samarqand [called the Amir Husayn in the year 1366] and brought him to his death. Timur has ever since shown Prince Jahán Sháh great favour, bedowing rich lands on him, so that now he is a mighty lord. It is the cudom of Timur to give in charge his dud of horses and his great flocks of sheep each to some one of his nobles who mud see to their wants, giving padure in the lands they personally possess. One noble thus may have in charge a thousand head of cattle and another ten thousand. If when the time comes for Timur to regain possession of his own it should appear that the number falls short or that their condition anywise be wanting, his Highness will seize whatsoever that lord may possess and very probably in addition put him to death, for such is his rule and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31354932_0332.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
