leaning over from our horses on this side, leaning over from that, at one loose-rein gallop! Very drunk I must have been for, when they told me next day that we had galloped loose-rein into camp, carrying torches, I could not recal it in the very least. After reaching my quarters, I vomited a good deal.
{March nth) On Friday we rode out on an excursion, crossed the water (Jehlam) by boat and went about amongst the orchards (bdghdt) of blossoming trees and the lands1 of the sugar-cultivation. We saw the" wheel with buckets, had water drawn, and asked particulars about getting it out; ind ;ed we made them draw it again and again. During this excursion a confection was preferred. In returning we went on board a boat. A confection {indjuii) was given also to Minuchihr Khan, such a one that, to keep him standing, two people had to give him their arms. For a time the boat remained at anchor in mid-stream ; we then went down-stream ; after a while had it drawn up-stream again, slept in it that night and went back to camp near dawn.
{March 12(h) On Saturday the 10th of the first Rabl'.the Sun entered the Ram. Today we rode out before mid-day and got into a boat where 'araq was drunk. The people of the party were Khwaja Dost-khawand, Dost Beg, Mlrlm, Mirza Quli, Muhammad!, AhmadI, Yunas-i-'alT, Muh. 'All Jang-jang, Gadai Taghal, Mir Khurd (and ?) 'Asas. The musicians were Rauhdam, Baba Jan, Qasim, Yusuf-i-'all, Tlngri-qull and Ramzan. We got into a branch-water (shakh-i-db), for some time went down-stream, landed a good deal below BhTra and on its opposite bank, and went late into camp.
This same day Shah Hasan returned from Khush-ab whither he had been sent as envoy to demand the countries which from of old had depended on the Turk ; he had settled peaceably with them and had in his hands a part of the money assessed on them.
The heats were near at hand. To reinforce Hindu Beg (in Bhira) were appointed Shah Muhammad Keeper of the Seal and his younger brother Dost Beg Keeper of the Seal, together with several suitable braves; an accepted (jydrdsha) stipend was fixed and settled in accordance with each man's position. Khush-ab was bestowed, with a standard, on Langar Khan, the prime cause and mover of this expedition ; we settled also that
