The Memoirs of Bābur 910.9.3

910.9.3

Next day we marched forward and dismounted at Hangū, where local Afghāns had made a _sangur_ on a hill. I first heard the word _sangur_ after coming to Kābul where people describe fortifying themselves on a hill as making a _sangur_. Our men went straight up, broke into it and cut off a hundred or two of insolent Afghān heads. There also a pillar of heads was set up. From Hangū we marched, with one night's halt, to Tīl (Thāl),[894] below Bangash; there also our men went out and raided the Afghāns near-by; some of them however turned back rather lightly from a _sangur_.[895] (_g. Across country into Bannū._) On leaving Tīl (Thāl) we went, without a road, right down a steep descent, on through out-of-the-way narrows, halted one night, and next day came down into Bannū,[896] man, horse and camel all worn out with fatigue and with most of the booty in cattle left on the way. The frequented road must have been a few miles to our right; the one we came by did not seem a riding-road at all; it was understood to be called the Gosfandliyār [Sidenote: Fol. 148.] (Sheep-road),—_liyār_ being Afghānī for a road,—because sometimes shepherds and herdsmen take their flocks and herds by it through those narrows. Most of our men regarded our being brought down by that left-hand road as an ill-design of Malik Bū-sa`īd _Kamarī_.[897] (_h. Bannū and the `Īsa-khail country._)