and there was busy with fight and blow. At the post of the centre, Muh. 'All Jang-jatig* and his younger brother Nau-roz got up, each by a different ladder, and made lance and sword to touch. Baba the waiting man (yasdwal), getting up by another ladder, occupied himself in breaking down the fort-wall with his axe. Most of our braves went well forward, shooting off dense flights of arrows and not letting the enemy put out a head ; others made themselves desperately busy in breaching and pulling down the fort, caring naught for the enemy's fight and blow, giving no eye to his arrows and stones. Ky breakfast-time Dost Beg's men had undermined and breached the north-eastern tower, got in and put the foe to flight. The men of the centre got in up the ladders by the same time, but those (an/) others were first (azczoal?) in.2 By the favour and pleasure of the High God, this strong and mighty fort was taken in two or three astronomical hours ! Matching the fort were the utter struggle and effort of our braves ; distinguish themselves they did, and won the name and fame of heroes.
As the Bajaur! s were rebels and at enmity with the people of Islam, and as, by reason of the heathenish and hostile customs prevailing in their midst, the very name of Islam was rooted out from their tribe, they were put to general massacre and their wives and children were made captive. At a guess more than 3000 men went to their death ; as the fight did not reach to the eastern side of the fort, a few got away there.
The fort taken, we entered and inspected it. On the'walls, in houses, streets and alleys, the dead lay, in what hurnbers ! Comers and goers to and fro were passing over the;bpdies. Returning from our inspection, we sat down in the Bajaur sultan's residence. The country of Bajaur we bestdwed on Khwaja Kalan,3 assigning a large number of braves to reinforce him. At the Evening Prayer we went back to camp.
' This sobriquet might mean " ever a fighter ", or an "argle-bargler ", or a brass shilling (Zenker), or (if writtenJittg-jing) that the man was visaged like the bearded reeding (Scully in Shaw's Vocabulary). The Tabaqai-i-akbari includes a Mlrak Khan Jatig-jaitg in its list of Akbar's Commanders.
2 ghul-dln (amwal) aftl yfirghtin-gha chlqil. I suggest to supply awwal, first, on the warrant of Babur's later statement (f. 234^) that Dost was first in.
3 He was a son of Maulana Muh. Sadr, one of the chief men of 'Umar-shaikh M.'s Court; he had six brothers, all of whom spent their lives in Babur's service, to whom, if we may believe Abu'1-fazl, they were distantly related (Erskine).
