1 4ig BULKU.
2 immm wUdli have aliadj bisen -aUniBd'febk at ooointiig io nncli
3 fwpcr ca die diicA of aD Tartar tiibeif mint have opaated -to lender
4 dietJabek peofdeflabnuMavei: andtfae ooly difficolty U toMeartem
5 hoir their obediehce was tnuaafened fiimi thoie ehiafr tatke^enenl
6 gDvenunenita. in the caae of Bofchanra we find that ^ttie .waa liie
7 result of a long -exertion on the pait of the government, which is
8 stated to have iirom ancient tim^ practised the ptMcy of dividing and
9 mixing the TanoiM tribea under its authority, and o( keeping the
10 g^eat men horn all employnenta that might give them influ^ce over
11 the people with whom they were connected by birth. It is probable
12 some such policy was adopted by the other Uzbek governments, and
13 several conjectures may be affiaied as to the means thej poaawwed fair
14 carrviiifT it iyito effort.
15 The I'zhclvs entered their prespiii seats as eoiK juerors, and the
16 power which tlieii leader necessaniv enjoyed while they were an
17 armv, continued wlien they again became a fixed nation. It is pro-
18 bable his pe)\ver wiis strengthenwl by the iMoullahb, wlio are generally
19 the allies oi the civil government, and whose aid in this case would
20 be more than usuaUy powerful* : and finally the country possessed
21 bj the IMwika is g^nenllj plain* and Donaequentlj un&vamrable tft
22 the preacrvatioD of the ind^endenoe of email aocietieab The eftet
23 of thia laat carcomafcanoe in eafcaUiahing die power of the gmed
24 government is great* aa we may judge finm the state of die Uabcks
25 who inhabit atroog oountnea. The hiUj eoontij of HiasaDr» and
26 die manhy one of Shekr Suba, being eqoaUj inawaasiMe to the
27 eavahy of die King of BoldMaia* have alike defied his power, and
28 mnaui under the chiefs of- the tribea who inhabit them: bat in
29 all those states the people are equally enslaved, and among die ^Hiflle
30 Tooihee race, the Toorkmmia on the Qnis atone en|07 a popnhsr
31 gtfvei'iimienti
32 * Hiu aliiaee iridi die civil govomment tend* also to increase the power of Uie
33 MooUahs. It was probably in ooiueqaetioe of a f^lttWlMrthlW oi dlis kind^ tfatt tlw ClfaDa
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