and given leave to go. Today also leave was given for theii own districts of Khwast and Andar-ab to Khwaja Muhammad 'All and Tlngri-birdl.
{July 21 st) On Thursday the 23rd came Muh.'All Jang-jang who had been left in charge of the countries near Kacha-kot and the QarlQq. With him came one of Hatl's people and Mlrza-i-malu-i-qarluq's son Shah Hasan. Today Mulla 'Ali-jan waited on me, returned from fetching his wife from Samarkand.
(2. The 'Abdu'r-rakman Afghans and Rustam-maiddn.)
{July 2jtli) The 'Abdu'r-rahman Afghans on the Glrdlz bordei were satisfactory neither in their tribute nor their behaviour; they were hurtful also to the caravans which came and went. On Wednesday the 29th of Rajab we rode out to over-run them. We dismounted and ate food near Tang-i-waghchan,1 and rode on again at the Mid-day Prayer. In the night we lost the road and got much bewildered in the ups and downs of the land to the south-east of Patakh-i-ab-i-shakna.2 After a time we lit on a road and by it crossed the Chashma-i-tura 3 pass.
{July 28th) At the first prayer {farz-waqf) we got out from the valley-bottom adjacent 4 to the level land, and the raid was allowed. One detachment galloped towards the Kar-mashs mountain, south-east of Glrdlz, the left-hand of the centre led by Khusrau, Mlrza Qull and Sayyid 'All in their rear. Most of the army galloped up the dale to the east of Glrdtz, having in their rear men under Sayyid Qasim Lord of the Gate, Mir Shah Quchin, Qayyam (AurdG-shah Beg?), Hindu Beg, Qutluq-qadarn and Husain [Hasan ?]. Most of the army having gone up the dale, I followed at some distance. The dalesmen must have been a good way up; those who went after them wore their horses out and nothing to make up for this fell into their hands. Some Afghans on foot, some 40 or 5 o of them, having appeared on the plain, the rear-reserve went towards them. A courier was sent to me and I hastened on at once. Before I got up
1 This is the Girdiz-pass [Raverty's Notes, Route 101].
2 Raverty (p. 677) suggests that Patakh stands for batqaq, a quagmire (f. 16 and n.),
3 the dark, or cloudy spring.
4 yaqish-liq qui, an unusual phrase.
5 var. Karman, Kurmah, Karmas. M. de C. read Kir-mas, the impenetrable. The forms would give Garm-as, hot embers.
