The Memoirs of Bābur 910.11.1

910.11.1

We dismounted at the torrent coming down to the Āb-i-istāda from the plain of Kattawāz. The several other times we have passed it, we have found a dry channel with no water whatever,[920] but this time, there was so much water, from the spring-rains, that no ford could be found. The water was not very broad but very deep. Horses and camels were made to swim it; some of the baggage was hauled over with ropes. Having got across, we went on through Old Nānī and Sar-i-dih to Ghaznī where for a few days Jahāngīr Mīrzā was our host, setting food before us and offering his tribute. (_m. Return to Kābul._) That year most waters came down in flood. No ford was found through the water of Dih-i-yaq`ūb.[921] For this reason we went straight on to Kamarī, through the Sajāwand-pass. At Kamarī I had a boat fashioned in a pool, brought and set on the Dih-i-yaq`ūb-water in front of Kamarī. In this all our people were put over. We reached Kābul in the month of Ẕū'l-ḥijja (May 1505 AD.).[922] A few days earlier Sayyid Yūsuf _Aūghlāqchī_ had gone to God's [Sidenote: Fol. 154.] mercy through the pains of colic. (_n. Misconduct of Nāṣīr Mīrzā._)