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910 AH. JUNE 14th 1504 to JUNE 4ih 1505 AD. 241
(m. Return to Kabul.)
That year most waters came down in flood. No ford was found through the water of Dih-i-yaq'ub.1 For this reason we went straight on to Kamarl, through the Sajawand-pass. At Kamari I had a bor* fashioned in a pool, brought and set on the Dih-i-yaq'ub-water in front of Kamarl. In this all our people were put over.
We reached Kabul in the month of Zu'1-hijja (May 1505 AD.).2 A few days earlier Sayyid Yusuf Aiighlaqchi had gone to God's mercy through the pains of colic.
(n. Misconduct of Nasir Mirzd.)
It has been mentioned that at Qush-gumbaz, Nasir Mlrza asked leave to stay behind, saying that he would follow in a few days after taking something from his district for his retainers and followers.3 But having left us, he sent a force against the people of Nur-valley, they having done something a little refractory. The difficulty of moving in that valley owing to the strong position of its fort and the rice-cultivation of its lands, has already been described.4 The Mlrza's commander, Fazli, in ground so impracticable and in that one-road tract, instead of safe-guarding his men, scattered them to forage. Out came the valesmen, drove the foragers off, made it impossible to the rest to keep their ground, killed some, captured a mass of others and of horses, precisely what would happen to any army chancing to be under such a person as Fazli! Whether because of this affair, or whether from want of heart, the Mlrza did not follow us at all; he stayed behind.
Moreover Ayflb's sons, Yusuf and Bahlul (Begchik), more seditious, silly and arrogant persons than whom there may not exist, to whom I had given, to Yusuf Alangar, to Bahlul 'Allshang, they like Nasir Mlrza, were to have taken something from their districts and to have come on with him, but, he not coming,
1 This is the Luhugur (Logar) water, knee-deep in winter at the ford but spreading in flood with the spring-rains. Babur, not being able to cross it for the direct roads into Kabul, kept on along its left bank, crossing it eventually at the Kamari of maps, s.e. of Kabul.
This disastrous expedition, full of privation and loss, had occupied some four months (T.R. p. 201).
3 f- '45*- * f- 133* and Appendix F.
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