[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Bābur (1526–1530)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur) › [Bāburnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama) › [The Babur-nama in English (A. S. Beveridge)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge) › 904.1.4 # The Memoirs of Bābur 904.1.4 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 904.1.4 - **Language:** English ### [904.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.904.1.4) Near the Afternoon Prayer of that same day, a horseman appeared at the foot of the valley. He was a man named Yūl-chūq, presumably \`Ali-dost T̤aghāī's own servant, and had been sent with this written message, 'Although many great misdeeds have had their rise in me, yet, if you will do me the \[Sidenote: Fol. 60b.\] favour and kindness of coming to me, I hope to purge my offences and remove my reproach, by giving you Marghīnān and by my future submission and single-minded service.' Such news! coming on such despair and whirl-of-mind! Off we hurried, that very hour,—it was sun-set,—without reflecting, without a moment's delay, just as if for a sudden raid, straight for Marghīnān. From where we were to Marghīnān may have been 24 or 25 \_yīghāch\_ of road.\[442\] Through that night it was rushed without delaying anywhere, and on next day till at the Mid-day Prayer, halt was made at Tang-āb (Narrow-water), one of the villages of Khujand. There we cooled down our horses and gave them corn. We rode out again at beat of (twilight-) drum\[443\] and on through that night till shoot of dawn, and through the next day till sunset, and on through that night till, just before dawn, we were one \_yīghāch\_ from Marghīnān. Here Wais Beg and others represented to me with some anxiety what sort of an evil-doer \`Ali-dost was. 'No-one,' they said, 'has come and gone, time and again, between him and us; no terms and compact have been made; trusting to what are we going?' In truth their fears were just! - [Previous: 904.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.904.1.3) - [Next: 904.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.904.1.5) - [Up: 904.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.904.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.904.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.904.1.4) · Pramāṇa