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140 ULUGH KHAN, AFTERWARDS EMPEROR BALBAN When Ulugh Khan carried war into the hills and punished the rebels in the way we have related, a num- ber of them escaped by flight. These survivors again took to plundering on the highways and murdering Mussulmans to such an extent that the roads became dangerous. When this matter was reported to Ulugh Khan, he sent emissaries and spies to find out the places where the rebels had taken refuge, and to make a full report of their state and condition. On Monday, the twenty-fourth of Rajab, 658 A. H. (July, 1260 A. D.), he marched from Delhi with his own troops, the main army, and the forces of several chiefs. He hastened toward the hills, and, accomplishing more than fifty leagues in one day's journey, he fell upon the insur- gents unawares and captured them all, to the number of twelve thousand men, women, and children whom he put to the sword. All their valleys and strongholds were overrun and cleared, and great booty was cap- tured. Thanks be to God for this victory of Islam! ' This concludes the principal events of Ulugh Khan's career until the death of his royal master, Nasir-ad- din, six years later, in 1266 A. D., when Ulugh, the great statesman and general, became king himself under the title of Balban, as already described by Professor Lane- Poole in the third volume of this series.