The Memoirs of Bābur 899.1.7

899.1.7

Again there is Khujand,[75] twenty-five _yīghāch_ by road to the west of Andijān and twenty-five _yīghāch_ east of Samarkand.[76] Khujand is one of the ancient towns; of it were Shaikh Maṣlaḥat and Khwāja Kamāl.[77] Fruit grows well there; its pomegranates are renowned for their excellence; people talk of a Khujand pomegranate as they do of a Samarkand apple; just now however, Marghīnān pomegranates are much met with.[78] The walled town (_qūrghān_) of Khujand stands on high ground; the Saiḥūn River flows past it on the north at the distance, may be, of an arrow's flight.[79] To the north of both the town and the river lies a mountain range called Munūghul;[80] people say there are turquoise and other mines in it and there are many snakes. The hunting and fowling-grounds of Khujand are first-rate; _āq kīyīk_,[81] _būghū-marāl_,[82] pheasant and hare are all had in great plenty. The climate is very malarious; in autumn there is much fever;[83] people rumour it about that the very sparrows get fever and say that the cause of the malaria is the mountain range on the north (_i.e._ Munūghul). Kand-i-badām (Village of the Almond) is a dependency of Khujand; though it is not a township (_qaṣba_) it is rather a good approach to one (_qaṣbacha_). Its almonds are excellent, hence its name; they all go to Hormuz or to Hindūstān. It is five or [Sidenote: Fol. 4b.] six _yīghāch_[84] east of Khujand.