The Memoirs of Bābur 905.2.3

905.2.3

The hunting-grounds are good in that neighbourhood; in the jungle near the Aīlāīsh river is much _būghū-marāl_[491] and pig; the small scattered clumps of jungle are thick with hare and pheasant; and on the near rising-ground, are many foxes[492] of fine colour and swifter than those of any other place. While we were in those quarters, I used to ride hunting every two or three days; we would beat through the great jungle and hunt _būghū-marāl_, or we would wander about, making a circle round scattered clumps and flying our hawks at the pheasants. The pheasants are unlimited[493] there; pheasant-meat was abundant as long as we were in those quarters. While we were there, Khudāī-bīrdī _Tūghchī_, then newly-favoured with beg's rank, fell on some of Taṃbal's raiders and brought in a few heads. Our braves went out also from Aūsh and Andijān and raided untiringly on the enemy, driving in his herds of horses and much enfeebling him. If the whole winter had been passed in those quarters, the more probable thing is [Sidenote: Fol. 71b.] that he would have broken up simply without a fight. (_k. Qaṃbar-`alī again asks leave._)