935 AH. AUG. 8th. 1499 TO JULY 28TH. 1500 AD. 115
herds of horses and much enfeebling him. If the whole winter had been passed in those quarters, the more probable thing is that he would have broken up simply without a fight.
(k. Qaqibar-'all again asks leave.)
It was at such a time, just when our foe was growing weak and helpless, that Qambar-'all asked leave to go to his district. The more he was dissuaded by reminder of the probabilities of the position, the more stupidity he shewed. An amazingly fickle and veering manikin he was ! It had to be! Leave for his district was given him. That district had been Khujand formerly but when Andijan was taken this last time, Asfara and Kand-i-badam were given him in addition. Amongst our begs, he was the one with large districts and many followers; no-one's land or following equalled his. We had been 40 or 50 days in those winter-quarters. At his recommendation, leave was given also to some of the clans in the army. We, for our part, went into Andijan.
{1. SI. Mahmud Khan sends Mughuls to help Tarribal.)
Both while we were in our winter-quarters and later on in Andijan, Tambal's people came and went unceasingly between him and The Khan in Tashklnt. His paternal uncle of the fullblood, Ahmad Beg, was guardian of The Khan's son, SI. Muhammad SI. and high in favour; his elder brother of the full-blood, Beg Tilba (Fool), was The Khan's Lord of the Gate. After all the comings and goings, these two brought The Khan to the point of reinforcing Tambal. Beg Tilba, leaving his wife and domestics and family in Tashklnt, came on ahead of the reinforcement and joined his younger brother, Tambal, Beg Tilba! who from his birth up had been in Mughiilistan, had grown up amongst Mughuls, had never entered a cultivated country or served the rulers of one, but from first to last had served The Khans!
Just then a wonderful {'ajab) thing happened ;l Qasim-i-'ajab (wonderful Qasirn) when he had been left for a time in Akhsi,
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