TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.
Friends are likely to have rescued Babur from his dangerous isolation. His presence in Karnan was known both in Ghawa and in Akhsl; Muh. Baqir Beg was at hand (f. 117); some of those he had dropped in his flight would follow him when their horses had had rest; Jahangir was somewhere north of the river with the half of Babur's former force (f. 112); The Khans, with their long-extended luits of march, may have been on the main road through or near Karnan. If Yiisuf took Babur as a prisoner along the Akhsl road, there were these various chances of his meeting friends.
His danger was evaded; he joined his uncles and was with them, leading 1000 men (Sh. N. p. 268), when they were defeated at Archian just before or in the season of Cancer, i.tcirca June (T. R. p. 164). What he was doirj between the winter cold of Karnan (f. 1176) and June might have been
1 Here the Turki text breaks off, as it might through loss of pages, causing a blank of narrative extending over some 16 months. Cf. App. D. for a passage, supposedly spurious, found with the Ilaidarabad Codex and the Kehr-Ilminsky text, purporting to tell how Babur was rescued from the risk in which the lacuna here leaves him.
