Then I
passed the lake Keule. There I took the cranes with blue feet; that
is, the Katakins, Saldjuts, and Kunkurats. This is the fifth service I
have done you.
"6. Do you not remember, O Khan, my father, how on the river Kara,
near the mount Jurkan, we swore that if a snake glided between us, and
envenomed our words, we would not listen to it until we had received
some explanation? yet you suddenly left me without asking me to
explain.
"7. O Khan, my father, why suspect me of ambition? I have not said,
'My part is too small, I want a greater;' or 'It is a bad one, I want
a better.' When one wheel of a cart breaks, and the ox tries to drag
it, it only hurts its neck. If we then detach the ox, and leave the
vehicle, the thieves come and take the load. If we do not unyoke it,
the ox will die of hunger. Am I not one wheel of thy chariot?"
With this letter Temudjin sent a request that the black gelding of
Mukuli Bahadur, with its embroidered and plated saddle and bridle,
which had been lost on the day of their struggle, might be restored to
him; he also asked that messengers might be sent to treat for a peace
between them.
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