The Memoirs of Bābur 911.2.2

911.2.2

(_Author's note on Shaikh Darwīsh._) He had been with me in the guerilla-times, was Master-armourer (_qūr-begī_), drew a strong bow and shot a good shaft. As most of the Turkmān Hazāras seemed to be wintering inside the Dara-i-khūsh, we marched against them. The valley is shut in,[965] by a mile-long gully stretching inwards from its mouth. The road engirdles the mountain, having [Sidenote: Fol. 160b.] a straight fall of some 50 to 60 yards below it and above it a precipice. Horsemen go along it in single-file. We passed the gully and went on through the day till between the Two Prayers (3 p.m.) without meeting a single person. Having spent the night somewhere, we found a fat camel[966] belonging to the Hazāras, had it killed, made part of its flesh into _kabābs_[967] and cooked part in a ewer (_aftāb_). Such good camel-flesh had never been tasted; some could not tell it from mutton.