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{sss. Bdbur returns to Agra.)
{June 21st) With an easy mind about these parts, we set out for Agra, raid-fashion,1 when Spas \gari of Tuesday night were past.2 In the morning {Tuesday 15th) we did i6kurohs (32m.), near mid-day made our nooning in the pargana of Baladar, one of the dependencies of KalpI, there gave our horses barley, at the Evening Prayer rode on, did i^kurohs (26m.) in the night, at the 3rd night-watch {mid-night, Shawwal ij i6th) dismounted at Bahadur Khan SarwdnVs tomb at Sugandpur, a pargana of KalpI, slept a little, went through the Morning Prayer and hurried on. After doing \6kurohs (32m.), we reached Etawa at the fall of day, where Mahdl Khwaja came out to meet us.3 Riding on after the 1st night-watch (9p.m.), we slept a little on the way, did i6kurohs (32m.), took our nooning at Fathpur of Rapri, rode on soon after the Mid-day Prayer {Thursday Shawwal 17th,), did i7kurohs (34m.), and in the 2nd night-watch4 dismounted in the Garden-of-eight-paradises at Agra.
{June 24-tfi) At the dawn of Friday {18th) Pay-master SI. Muhammad came with several more to wait on me. Towards the Mid-day Prayer, having crossed Jun, I waited on Khwaja'Abdu'lhaqq, went into the Fort and saw the beglms my paternal-aunts. {tit. Indian-grown Jruits.)
A Balkhl melon-grower had been set to raise melons ; he now brought a few first-rate small ones ; on one or two bush-vines {buta-tak) I had had planted in the Garden-of-eight-paradises very good grapes had grown ; Shaikh Guran sent me a basket of grapes which too were not bad. To have grapes and melons grown in this way in Hindustan filled my measure of content.
{uuu. Arrival ojMahim Begim.)
{June 26th) Mahim arrived while yet two watches of Sunday night {Shawwal 20th) 5 remained. By a singular agreement
1 i.e. riding light and fast. The distance done between Adampur and Agra was some 157miles, the time was from 12a.m. on Tuesday morning to about 9p.m. of Thursday. This exploit serves to show that three years of continuous activity in the plains of Hindustan had not destroyed Babur's capacity for sustained effort, spite of several attacks of (malarial ?) fever.
2 Anglice, Tuesday 12.25 a. m. 3. He was governor of Etawa.
* Islamice, Friday, Shawwal 18th, Anglice1, Thursday, June 24th, soon after 9p.m.
5 Anglice, she arrived at mid-night of Saturday. Gul-badan writes of Mahim s arrival as unexpected and of Babur's hurrying off on foot to meet her (Humayunnama f. 14, trs. p. 100).
