are taken in it, because they have no way out. This method of catching fish we have seen nowhere else.1
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE RESUMED.2 (a. Departure of Muqlm and allotment of lands.)
A few days after the taking of Kabul, Muqlm asked leave fo set off for Qandahar. As he had come out of the town on terms and conditions, he was allowed to go to his father (Zu'nnun) and his elder brother (Shah Beg), with all his various people, his goods and his valuables, safe and sound.
Directly he had gone, the Kabul-country was shared out to the Mlrzas and the guest-begs.3 To JahangJr Mlrza was given Ghaznl with its dependencies and appurtenancies ; to Nasir Mirza, the Nlngnahar tuvian, Mandrawar, Nur-valley, Kunar, Nur-gal (Rock-village?) and Chlghan-saraT. To some of the begs who had been with us in the guerilla-times and had come to Kabul with us, were given villages, fief-fashion.4 Wilayat itself was not given at all.5 It was not only then that I looked with more favour on guest-begs and stranger-begs than I did on old servants and AndijanTs ; this I have always done whenever the Most High God has shown me His favour ; yet it is remarkable that, spite of this, people have blamed me constantly as though I had favoured none but old servants and Andijanls. There is a proverb, (Turki) " What will a foe not say ? what enters not into dream ? " and (Persian) " A town-gate can be shut, a foe's mouth never."
' Burnes and Vigne describe a fall 20 miles from Kabul, at " Tangi Gharoi", [below where the Tag-au joins the Baran-water,] to which in their day, Kabulls went out for the amusement of catching fish as they try to leap up the fall. Were these migrants seeking upper waters or were they captives in a fish-pond ?
a Elph. MS. f. Ill ; W.-i-B. I.O. 215 f. 1166 and 217 f. 97*; Mems. p. 155 ; Mc'ms. i, 31S.
3 mihman-beglar, an expression first used by Babur here, and due, presumably, to accessions from Khusrau Shah's following. A parallel case is given in Max Midler's Sctence of Language i, 348 ed. 1871, "Turkman tribes . . . call themselves, not subjects, but guests of the Uzbeg Khans."
* tiyul-dlk in all the Turk! MSS. Ilminsky, de Courteille and Zenker, yilul-dik, Turki, a fief.
s Wilayat khud hech blrilmadl; W.-i-B. 215 f. \\6b, Wilayat dada na shuda and
*'7 f. 97*, Wilayat khud hech dada na shud. By this I understand that he kept the
tends of Kabul itself in his own hands. He mentions (f. 350) and Gul-badan mentions
11 ^ ^°^ ^'s reso've so to keep Kabul. I think he kept not only the fort but
a1' lands constituting the Kabul tuman (f. 135* and note).
