Prayer of Sunday the 5th of the month, went into the fort of Agra to bid farewell to Fakhr-i-jahan Beglm and Khadljasultan Beglm who were to start for Kabul in a few days, and got to horse. Muhammad-i-zaman Mirza asked for leave and stayed behind in Agra. That night we did 3 or 4 kurohs (6-8 m.) of the road, dismounted near a large lake {kul) and there slept. {Sep. 21st) We got through the Prayer somewhat before time {Muh. 6th) and rode on, nooned * on the bank of the Gamb[h]lr-water 2, and went on shortly after the Mid-day Prayer. On the way we ate3 powders mixed with the flour of parched grain,4 Mulla Rafl' having prepared them for raising the spirits. They were found very distasteful and unsavoury. Near the Other Prayer we dismounted a kuroh (2 m.) west of Dulpur, at a place where a garden and house had been ordered made.5
{c. Work in Dulpur {Dhulpiir).)
That place is at the end of a beaked hill,6 its beak being of solid red building-stone {'imdrat-tdsh). I had ordered the (beak of the) hill cut down (dressed down ?) to the ground-level and that if there remained a sufficient height, a house was to be cut out in it, if not, it was to be leve led and a tank {hauz) cut out? in its top. As it was not found high enough for a house, Ustad Shah Muhammad the stone-cutter was ordered to level it and cut out an octagonal, roofed tank. North of this tank the ground is thick with trees, mangoes, jd/nan {Eugenia jamboland), all sorts of trees ; amongst them 1 had ordered a well made, 10 by 10; it was almost ready ; its water goes to the afore-named tank. To the north of this tank SI. Sikandar's dam is flung across (the valley); on it houses have been built, and above it the waters of the Rains gather into a great lake. On the east of this lake is a garden ; I ordered a seat and four-pillared platform {(alar)
1 tiish/aniS, i.e. they took rest and food together at mid-day.
2 This seems to be the conjoined Gambhir and Banganga which is crossed by the Agra-Dhulpur road (G. of I. Atlas, Sheet 34).
3 auhtiiq, the plural of which shews that more than one partook of the powders {safiif).
4 T.talqan, Hindi sattu (Shaw). M. de Courteille's variant translation may be due to his reading for tiilqait, talghaq, flof, agitation (his Diet, s.n.) and ftl, wind, for Si/a, with.
5 in 933 ah. f. 330(5.
6 " Each beaked promontory " (Lycidas). Our name " Selsey-bill " is an English instance of Babur's (not infrequent) tiimshuq, beak, bill of a bird.
