925 AH. JAN. 3rd to DEC. 23rd 1519" AD. 415
was the cause ! wine was drunk ! A sheep was ordered brought from the road and made into kababs (jbrochettes). We amused ourselves by setting fire to branches of holm-oak.1
Mulla 'Abdu'l-malik diwana2 having begged to take the news of our coming into Kabul, was sent ahead. To this place came Hasan Nablra from Mirza Khan's presence ; he must have come after letting me know [his intention of coming].3 There was drinking till the Sun's decline ; we then rode off. People in our party had become very drunk, Sayyid Qasim so much so, that two of his servants mounted him and got him into camp with difficulty. Muh. Baqir's Dost was so drunk that people, headed by Amin-i-muhammad Tarkhan and Mast! chuhra, could not get him on his horse ; even when they poured water on his head, nothing was effected. At that moment a body of Afghans appeared. AmTn-i-muhammad, who had had enough himself, had this idea, " Rather than leave him here, as he is, to be taken, let us cut his head off and carry it with us." At last after 100 efforts, they mounted him and brought him with them. We reached Kabul at midnight.
(ff. Incidents in Kabul.)
In Court next morning Qui! Beg waited on me. * He had been to SI. Sa'ld Khan's presence in Kashghar as my envoy. To him as envoy to me had been added Blshka Mirza Itdrchi* who brought me gifts of the goods of that country.
{Oct. 2jtk) On Wednesday the 1st of Zu'1-qa'da, I went by myself to Qabil's tomb 5 and there took my morning. The people of the party came later by ones and twos. When the Sun waxed hot, we went to the Violet-garden and drank there, by the side of the reservoir. Mid-day coming on, we slept. At the Mid-day Prayer we drank again. At this mid-day party I gave wine to Tlngrl-quli Beg and to Mahndl (?) to whom at any earlier party, wine had not been given. At the Bed-time Prayer, I went to the Hot-bath where I stayed the night.
1 f. 141*.
f. 217 and n.
3 I think Babur means that the customary announcement of an envoy or guest must have reached Kabul in his absence.
4 He is in the T. R. list of the tribe (p. 307); to it belonged SI. Ahmad Tambal (ib. p. 316).
5 QaUl-ning kiiri-ning qashi-ka, lit. to the presence of the tomb of Qabil, i.e. Cain the eponymous hero of Kabul. The Elph. MS. has been altered to "Qabil Beg " !
