The Memoirs of Bābur 935.3.1

935.3.1

(_p. Royal letters sent into Khurāsān._) (_Oct. 24th_) On Saturday the 10th of the month, Pay-master Sl. Muḥammad's foot-man Shāh Qāsim who once before had taken letters of encouragement to kinsfolk in Khurāsān,[2310] was sent to Herī with other letters to the purport that, through God's grace, our hearts were at ease in Hindūstān about the rebels and [Sidenote: Fol. 345b.] pagans of east and west; and that, God bringing it aright, we should use every means and assuredly in the coming spring should touch the goal of our desire.[2311] On the margin of a royal letter sent to Ahmad _Afshār_ (_Turk_) a summons to Farīdūn the _qabūz_-player was written with my own hand. (_Here the record of 11 days is wanting._) In today's forenoon (_Tuesday 20th_?) I made a beginning of eating quicksilver.[2312] (_q. News from Kābul and Khurāsān._)[2313]