The Memoirs of Bābur 932.2.1

932.2.1

(_f. Ferrying the Indus._) (_Dec. 16th_) On Saturday the 1st of the first Rabī`, we crossed the Sind-water, crossed the water of Kacha-kot (Hārū), and dismounted on the bank of the river.[1599] The begs, pay-masters and dīwāns who had been put in charge of the boats, reported that the number of those come with the army, great and small, good and bad, retainer and non-retainer, was written down as 12,000. (_g. The eastward march._) The rainfall had been somewhat scant in the plains, but [Sidenote: Fol. 254b.] seemed to have been good in the cultivated lands along the hill-skirts; for these reasons we took the road for Sīālkot along the skirt-hills. Opposite Hātī _Kakar's_ country[1600] we came upon a torrent[1601] the waters of which were standing in pools. Those pools were all frozen over. The ice was not very thick, as thick as the hand may-be. Such ice is unusual in Hindūstān; not a sign or trace of any was seen in the years we were (_aīdūk_) in the country.[1602] We had made five marches from the Sind-water; after the sixth (_Dec. 22nd_—Rabī` I. 7th) we dismounted on a torrent in the camping-ground (_yūrt_) of the Bugīāls[1603] below Balnāth Jogī's hill which connects with the Hill of Jūd. (_Dec. 23rd_) In order to let people get provisions, we stayed the next day in that camp. _`Araq_ was drunk on that day. Mullā Muḥ. _Pargharī_ told many stories; never had he been so talkative. Mullā Shams himself was very riotous; once he began, he did not finish till night.