912 AH. MAY 24th 1506 to MAY 13th 1507 AD.1
(a. Babur starts to join SI. Husain Mirza.)
In the month of Muharram we set out by way of Ghur-bund and Shibr-tu to oppose the Auzbeg.
As Jahanglr Mirza had gone out of the country in some sort of displeasure, we said, " There might come much mischief and trouble if he drew the clans (aimdq) to himself;" and "What trouble might come of it!" and, " First let's get the clans in hand !" So said, we hurried forward, riding light and leaving the baggage {auriiq) at Ushtur-shahr in charge of Wall the treasurer and Daulat-qadam of the scouts. That day we reached Fort Zahaq ; from there we crossed the pass of the Little-dome (Gumbazak-kutal), trampled through Salghan, went over the Dandan-shikan pass and dismounted in the meadow of Kahmard. From Kahmard we sent Sayyid Afzal the Seer-of-dreams {Khwab-bin) and SI. Muhammad Diildai to SI. Husain Mirza with a letter giving the particulars of our start from Kabul.2
Jahanglr Mirza must have lagged on the road, for when he got opposite Barman and went with 20 or 30 persons to visit it, he saw near it the tents of our people left with the baggage. Thinking we were there, he andvhis party hurried back to their camp and, without an eye to anything, without regard for their own people marching in the rear, made off for Yaka-aulang.3
(b. Action of Shaibaq Khan.)
When Shaibaq Khan had laid siege to Balkh, in which was SI. Qul-i-nachaq,4 he sent two or three sultans with 3 or 4000 men to overrun Badakhshan. At the time Mubarak Shah and
1 Elph. MS. t. 144 J W.-i-B. I.O. 215 f. 148* and 217 f. 125*; Mems. p. 199.
2 News of Husain'sf death in 911 ah. (f. 163*) did not reach Babur till 912 ah. (f. 184^). *
3 Lone^meadow (f. 195*). Jahangir will have come over the 'Iraq-pass, Babur's baggage-convoy, by Shibr-tu. Cf. T.R. p. 199 for Babur and Jahangir at this time.
' Servant-of-the-mace ; but perhaps, Qilinj-chaq, swords-man.
