red
flight began, and Galdan, seeing that the day was lost, fled with a
small body of followers, leaving his camp and baggage to the victors and
two thousand of his men dead on the field.

This victory ended the war. Kanghi, on hearing of it, returned to
Peking, having sent word to Feyanku to pursue Galdan with unrelenting
vigor, there being no security while he remained at large. The recent
powerful chief was now at the end of his resources. He fled for safety
from camp to camp. He sent an envoy to Peking with an abject offer to
surrender. He made new overtures to the Russians, and sought in a dozen
ways to escape from his implacable enemies. But Feyanku kept up the
pursuit, ceasing only when word came to him that the fugitive was dead.
Anxiety, hardships, chagrin, or, as some say, the act of his own hand,
had carried off the desert chief, and relieved the emperor of China from
the peril and annoyance which had so long troubled him.

In Galdan died a man who, under more fortunate circumstances, might have
emulated some of the famous Tartar chiefs, a warrior of the greatest
skill, courage, and daring, a "formidable enemy" to the Chinese empire,
and one who, had the government of that empire been as weak as it proved
strong, might have gathered all the nomads under arms and overthrown the
dynasty.

A few words must suffice to end the story of the Eleuths. The death of
Galdan did not bring them to submission, and years afterwards we find
them hostile to Chinese rule, and even so daring as to invade Thibet,
which Kanghi had added to his empire, they taking its central city of
Lhassa, and carrying to the steppes a vast wealth in spoil. Eventually
they were subjected to Chinese rule, but before this took place an event
of much interest occurred. The Tourguts, an adjoining Kalmuck tribe,
were so imperilled by the enmity of the Eleuths that they took the
important resolution of migrating to Russia, marching across the Kirghiz
steppes and becoming faithful subjects of the czar, who gave them a new
abiding-place on the banks of the Volga. Many years afterwards, in 1770,
this tribe, inspired by a strong desire to return to their own home,
left the Volga and crossed Asia, despite all efforts to check their
flight, until they reached again their native soil. For the interesting
story of this adventurous flight see Volume VIII.

_THE RAID OF THE GOORKHAS._

During the past two and a half centuries the great empire of Ch