[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) › 907.1.9 # The Memoirs of Bābur 907.1.9 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 907.1.9 - **Language:** English ### [907.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1.9) That winter Shaibāq Khān crossed the Khujand river on the ice and plundered near Shāhrukhiya and Bīsh-kīnt. On hearing news of this, we gallopped off, not regarding the smallness of our numbers, and made for the villages below Khujand, opposite Hasht-yak (One-eighth). The cold was mightily bitter,\[589\] a wind not less than the Hā-darwesh\[590\] raging violently the whole time. So cold it was that during the two or three days we were in those parts, several men died of it. When, needing to make ablution, I went into an irrigation-channel, frozen along both banks but because of its swift current, not ice-bound in the middle, and bathed, dipping under 16 times, the cold of the water went quite through me. Next day we crossed the river on the ice from opposite Khaṣlār and went on through the dark to Bīsh-kīnt.\[591\] Shaibāq Khān, however, must have gone straight back after plundering the neighbourhood of Shāhrukhiya. - [Previous: 907.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1.8) - [Next: 907.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.2.1) - [Up: 907.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.907.1.9) · Pramāṇa