The Memoirs of Bābur 911.2.4

911.2.4

In guerdon for this feat Bangash was given to Qāsim Beg. Ḥātim the armourer having been not bad in the affair, was promoted to Shaikh Darwīsh's office of _qūr-begī_. Bābā Qulī's Kīpik (_sic_) also went well forward in it, so we entrusted Muḥ. `Alī _Mubashshir's_ office to him. Sl. Qulī _Chūnāq_ (one-eared) started in pursuit of the Hazāras but there was no getting out of the hollow because of the snow. [Sidenote: Fol. 161b.] For my own part I just went with these braves. Near the Hazāra winter-camp we found many sheep and herds of horses. I myself collected as many as 4 to 500 sheep and from 20 to 25 horses. Sl. Qulī _Chūnāq_ and two or three of my personal servants were with me. I have ridden in a raid twice[971]; this was the first time; the other was when, coming in from Khurāsān (912 AH.), we raided these same Turkmān Hazāras. Our foragers brought in masses of sheep and horses. The Hazāra wives and their little children had gone off up the snowy slopes and stayed there; we were rather idle and it was getting late in the day; so we turned back and dismounted in their very dwellings. Deep indeed was the snow that winter! Off the road it was up to a horse's _qāptāl_,[972] so deep that the night-watch was in the saddle all through till shoot of dawn.