The Memoirs of Bābur 925.8.7

925.8.7

As I had never been along the Rustam-maidān road,[1477] I went with a few men to see it. Rustam-plain (_maidān_) lies amongst mountains and towards their head is not a very charming place. The dale spreads rather broad between its two ranges. To the south, on the skirt of the rising-ground is a smallish spring, having very large poplars near it. There are many trees also, but not so large, at the source on the way out of Rustam-maidān for Gīrdīz. This is a narrower dale, but still there is a plot of green meadow below the smaller trees mentioned, and the little dale is charming. From the summit of the range, looking south, the Karmāsh and Bangash mountains are seen at one's feet; and beyond the Karmāsh show pile upon pile of the rain-clouds of Hindūstān. Towards those other lands where no rain falls, not [Sidenote: Fol. 240.] a cloud is seen. We reached Hūnī at the Mid-day Prayer and there dismounted. (_July 30th_) Dismounting next day at Muḥammad Āghā's village,[1478] we perpetrated (_irtqāb_) a _ma'jūn_. There we had a drug thrown into water for the fish; a few were taken.[1479] (_July 31st_) On Sunday the 3rd of Sha`bān, we reached Kābul.