The Memoirs of Bābur 925.4.6

925.4.6

(_March 5th_) Next morning when the Court rose, we rode out for an excursion, entered a boat and there drank _`araq_.[1416] The people of the party were Khwāja Dost-khāwand, Khusrau, Mīrīm, Mīrzā Qulī, Muḥammadī, Aḥmadī, Gadāī, Na`man, Langar Khān, Rauh-dam,[1417] Qāsim-i-`alī the opium-eater (_tariyākī_), Yūsuf-i-`alī and Tīngrī-qulī. Towards the head of the boat there was a _tālār_[1418] on the flat top of which I sat with a few people, a few others sitting below. There was a sitting-place also at the tail of the boat; there Muḥammadī, Gadāī and Na`man sat. _`Araq_ was drunk till the Other Prayer when, disgusted by its bad flavour, by consent of those at the head of the boat, _ma'jūn_ was preferred. [Sidenote: Fol. 227b.] Those at the other end, knowing nothing about our _ma'jūn_ drank _`araq_ right through. At the Bed-time Prayer we rode from the boat and got into camp late.