[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) › 906.1.4 # The Memoirs of Bābur 906.1.4 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 906.1.4 - **Language:** English ### [906.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.1.4) We entered the valley and made our way up it. On its steep and narrow roads and at its sharp and precipitous saddles\[540\] many horses and camels were left. Before we reached the Sara-tāq pass we had (in 25 m.) to make three or four night-halts. A pass! and what a pass! Never was such a steep and narrow pass seen; never were traversed such ravines and precipices. Those dangerous narrows and sudden falls, those perilous heights and knife-edge saddles, we got through with much difficulty and suffering, with countless hardships and miseries. Amongst the Fān mountains is a large lake (Iskandar); it is 2 miles in circumference, a beautiful lake and not devoid of marvels.\[541\] News came that Ibrāhīm Tarkhān had strengthened Fort Shīrāz and was seated in it; also that Qaṃbar-\`alī (the Skinner) and Abū'l-qāsim \_Kohbur\_, the latter not being able to stay in Khwāja Dīdār with the Aūzbegs in Samarkand,—had both come into Yār-yīlāq, strengthened its lower forts and occupied them. - [Previous: 906.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.1.3) - [Next: 906.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.1.5) - [Up: 906.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.906.1.4) · Pramāṇa