will be told, I took up a position full of bounty, favour and promotion, in truth he was worthy of honour and advancement. Two other marches were made down the Sind-water. Our men, by perpetually gallopping off on raids, had knocked up their horses ; usually what they took, cattle mostly, was not worth the gallop ; sometimes indeed in the Plain there had been sheep, sometimes one sort of cloth or other, but, the Plain left behind, nothing was had but cattle. A mere servant would bring in 3 or 400 head during our marches along the Sind-water, but every march many more would be left on the road than they brought in.
(J, The westward march!)
Having made three more marches1 close along the Sind, we left it when we came opposite Plr Kanu's tomb.2 Going to the tomb, we there dismounted. Some of our soldiers having injured several of those in attendance on it, I had them cut to pieces. It is a tomb on the skirt of one of the Mehtar Sulaiman mountains and held in much honour in Hindustan.
Marching on from Plr Kanu, we dismounted in the (Pawat) pass ; next again in the bed of a torrent in Dukl.3 After we left this camp there were brought in as many as 20 to 30 followers of a retainer of Shah Beg, Fazil Kukulddsh, the darogha of Slwi. They had been sent to reconnoitre us but, as at that time, we were not on bad terms with Shah Beg, we let them go, with horse and arms. After one night's halt, we reached Chutlall, a village of Dukl.
Although our men had constantly gallopped off to raid, both before we reached the Sind-water and all along its bank, they had not left horses behind, because there had been plenty of green food and corn. When, however, we left the river and set our faces for Plr Kanu, not even green food was to be had ; a little land under green crop might be found every two or three
1 i.e. five from Bilah.
2 Raverty gives the saint's name as Plr Kanun (Ar. Aaniiu, listened to). It is the well-known Sakhi-sarwar, honoured by Hindus and Muhammadans. (G. of I., xxi, 390 ; R.'s Notes p. 11 and p. 12 and JASB 1855 ; Calcutta Review 1875, Macauliffe's art. On the fair at Sakhi-sarwar Leech's Report VII, for the route ; Khazinatu 'l-asfiya iv, 245.)
3 This seems to be the sub-district of Qandahar, Duki or Dugl.
