asking for a few elephants, ten were given him. After he had leave to set off, Baba Chuhra (the Brave) was sent to and ordered to join him. {h. Incidents of the journey to Ckandirl.)
From Kanar one kuroh (2 m.) was done by boat. {Jan. 1st 1528 AD.) On Wednesday the 8th of the latter RabI' we dismounted within a kuroh of Kalpl. Baba SI. came to wait on me in this camp ; he is a son of Khalll SI. who is a younger brother of the full-blood of SI. Sa'ld Khan. Last year he fled from his elder brother * but, repenting himself, went back from the Andar-ab border ; when he neared Kashghar, The Khan (Sa'ld) sent Haidar M. to meet him and take him back.
{Jan. 2nd RabT II. gth) Next day we dismounted at 'Alam Khan's house in Kalpl where he set Hindustani food before us and made an offering.
{Jan. 6th) On Monday the 13th of the month we marched from Kalpl.
{Jan. 10th RabT II. 17th) On Friday we dismounted at Irij.2
{Jan. nth) On Saturday we dismounted at Bandlr.3, {Jan. 12th) On Sunday the 19th of the month Chln-tlmur SI. was put at the head of 6 or 7000 men and sent ahead against Chandlrl. With him went the begs BaqI ming-bdshi (head of a thousand), Quj Beg's (brother) Tardl Beg, 'Ashiq the taster, Mulla Apaq, Muhsin 4 Dulddi and, of the Hindustani begs, Shaikh Guran.
{Jan 17th) On Friday the 24th of the month we dismounted near Kachwa. After encouraging its people, it was bestowed on the son of Badru'd-dln.5
Kachwa6 is a shut-in place, having lowish hills all round it.
1 aghd, Anglice, uncle. He was Sa'ld Khan of Kashghar. Haidar M. says Baba SI. was a spoiled child and died without mending his ways.
2 From Kalpl Babur will have taken the road to the s.w. near which now runs the Cawnpur (Kanhpur) branch of the Indian Midland Railway, and he must have crossed the Betwa to reach Irij (Irich, Indian Atlas, Sheet 69 N. W.).
3 Leaving Irij, Babur will have recrossed the Betwa and have left, its valley to go west to Bandir (Bhander) on the Pahuj (Indian Atlas, Sheet 69 S.W.).
4 beneficent, or Muhassan, comely.
5 The one man of this name mentioned in the B.N. is an amir of SI. Husain Bai-qara.
6 It seems safe to take Kachwa [Kajwa] as the Kajwarra of Ibn Batuta, and the Kadwaha (Kadwaia) of the Indian Atlas, Sheet 52 N.E. and of Luard's Gazetteer
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