The Memoirs of Bābur 910.7.1

910.7.1

Zurmut is another _tūmān_, some 12-13 _yīghāch_ south of Kābul and 7-8 south-east of Ghaznī.[832] Its _dārogha's_ head-quarters are [Sidenote: Fol. 139b.] in Gīrdīz; there most houses are three or four storeys high. It does not want for strength, and gave Nāṣir Mīrzā trouble when it went into hostility to him. Its people are Aūghān-shāl; they grow corn but have neither vineyards nor orchards. The tomb of Shaikh Muḥammad _Muṣalmān_ is at a spring, high on the skirt of a mountain, known as Barakistān, in the south of the _tūmān_. Farmūl is another _tūmān_,[833] a humble place, growing not bad apples which are carried into Hindūstān. Of Farmūl were the Shaikh-zādas, descendants of Shaikh Muḥammad _Muṣalmān_, who were so much in favour during the Afghān period in Hindūstān. Bangash is another _tūmān_.[834] All round about it are Afghān highwaymen, such as the Khūgīānī, Khirilchī, Tūrī and Landar. Lying out-of-the-way, as it does, its people do not pay taxes willingly. There has been no time to bring it to obedience; greater tasks have fallen to me,—the conquests of Qandahār, Balkh, Badakhshān and Hindūstān! But, God willing! when I get the chance, I most assuredly will take order with those Bangash thieves.