work unless the loss were repaid. In this moment of hesitation and
delay, the last of the Sassanian kings was overtaken and slaughtered by
the Turkish cavalry, in the nineteenth year of his unhappy reign. [38]
[3811] His son Firuz, an humble client of the Chinese emperor, accepted
the station of captain of his guards; and the Magian worship was long
preserved by a colony of loyal exiles in the province of Bucharia.
[3812] His grandson inherited the regal name; but after a faint and
fruitless enterprise, he returned to China, and ended his days in the
palace of Sigan. The male line of the Sassanides was extinct; but the
female captives, the daughters of Persia, were given to the conquerors
in servitude, or marriage; and the race of the caliphs and imams was
ennobled by the blood of their royal mothers. [39]

[Footnote 34: The most authentic accounts of the two rivers, the Sihon
(Jaxartes) and the Gihon, (Oxus,) may be found in Sherif al Edrisi
(Geograph. Nubiens. p. 138,) Abulfeda, (Descript. Chorasan. in Hudson,
tom. iii. p. 23,) Abulghazi Khan, who reigned on their banks, (Hist.
Genealogique des Tatars, p. 32, 57, 766,) and the Turkish Geographer,
a MS. in the king of France's library, (Examen Critique des Historiens
d'Alexandre, p. 194-360.)]

[Footnote 35: The territory of Fergana is described by Abulfeda, p. 76,
77.]

[Footnote 36: Eo redegit angustiarum eundem regem exsulem, ut Turcici
regis, et Sogdiani, et Sinensis, auxilia missis literis imploraret,
(Abulfed. Annal. p. 74) The connection of the Persian and Chinese
history is illustrated by Freret (Mem. de l'Academie, tom. xvi. p.
245-255) and De Guignes, (Hist. des Huns, tom. i. p. 54-59,) and for
the geography of the borders, tom. ii. p. 1-43.]

[Footnote 37: Hist. Sinica, p. 41-46, in the iiid part of the Relations
Curieuses of Thevenot.]

[Footnote 38: I have endeavored to harmonize the various narratives
of Elmacin, (Hist. Saracen. p. 37,) Abulpharagius, (Dynast. p. 116,)
Abulfeda, (Annal. p. 74, 79,) and D'Herbelot, (p. 485.) The end of
Yezdegerd, was not only unfortunate but obscure.]

[Footnote 3811: The account of Yezdegerd's death in the Habeib 'usseyr
and Rouzut uzzuffa (Price, p. 162) is much more probable. On the demand
of the few dhirems, he offered to the miller his sword, and royal
girdle, of inesturable value. This awoke the cupidity of the miller, who
murdered him, and threw the body into the stream.--M.]

[Footnote 3812: Firouz died lea