and had cut his head off, but had dropped it on the road. He brought no news so sure as the heart asks {kunkul-tiladik). Midday come, we marched on, crossed the Sawad-water, and dismounted nearer1 the Afternoon Prayer. At the Bed-time Prayer, we remounted and rode swiftly on.
{Feb. ijth) Rustam Turkman had been sent scouting; when the Sun was spear-high he brought word that the Afghans had heard about us and were shifting about, one body of them making off by the mountain-road. On this we moved the faster, sending raiders on ahead who killed a few, cut off their heads and brought a band of prisoners, some cattle and flocks. The Dilazak Afghans also cut off and brought in a few heads. Turning back, we dismounted near Katlang and from there sent a guide to meet the baggage-train under Khwaja Mlr-imlran and bring it to join us in Maqam.2
{Feb. 14th) Marching on next day, we dismounted between Katlang and Maqam. A man of Shah Mansur's arrived. Khusrau Kukuldash and AhmadI the secretary were sent with a few more to meet the baggage-train.
{Feb. 15th) On Wednesday the 14th of the month, the baggage-train rejoined us while we were dismounting at Maqam.
It will have been within the previous 30 or 40 years that a heretic qalandar named Shahbaz perverted a body of Yusufzai and another of Dilazak. His tomb was on a free and dominating height of ':he lower hill at the bill {tumshuq) of the Maqam mountain. Thought I, " What is there to recommend the tomb of a heretic qalandar for a place in air so free ? " and ordered the tomb destroyed and levelled with the ground. The place was so charming and open that we elected to sit there some time and to eat a confection {mdjun).
{h. Babur crosses the Indus for the first time.)
We had turned off from Bajaur with Bhlra in our thoughts.3 Ever since we came into Kabul it had been in my mind to move on Hindustan, but this had not been done for a variety of
1 See n. 2, f. 221.
* Perhaps Maqam is the Mardan of maps.
3 Bhlra, on the Jehlam, is now in the Shahpur district of the Panj-ab.
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