The Memoirs of Bābur 925.7.3

925.7.3

(_April 22nd_) On Thursday the 22nd of the month, we had a large round seat made in the garden under construction on the mountain-naze.[1456] (_April 23rd_) On Friday we got on a raft from the bridge. On our coming opposite the fowlers' houses, they brought a _dang_ [Sidenote: Fol. 235b.] (or _ding_)[1457] they had caught. I had never seen one before; it is an odd-looking bird. It will come into the account of the birds of Hindustan.[1458] (_April 24th_) On Saturday the 23rd of the month cuttings were planted, partly of plane, partly of _tāl_,[1459] above the round seat. At the Mid-day Prayer there was a wine-party at the place. (_April 25th_) At dawn we took our morning on the new seat. At noon we mounted and started for Kābul, reached Khwāja Ḥasan quite drunk and slept awhile, rode on and by midnight got to the Chār-bāgh. At Khwāja Ḥasan, `Abdu'l-lāh, in his drunkenness, threw himself into water just as he was in his _tūn aūfrāghī_.[1460] He was frozen with cold and could not go on with us when we mounted after a little of the night had passed. He stayed on Qūtlūq Khwāja's estate that night. Next day, awakened to his past intemperance, he came on repentant. Said I, "At once! will this sort of repentance answer or not? Would to God you would repent now at once in such a way that you would drink nowhere except at my parties!" He agreed to this and kept the rule for a few months, but could not keep it longer. (_x. Hindū Beg abandons Bhīra._)