The Memoirs of Bābur 935.8.7

935.8.7

(_March 20th_) Marching on (_Sunday 10th_), we did 6 _kurohs_ of road, and dismounted at Kintit.[2532] (_March 21st_) Marching on (_Monday 11th_), we dismounted at Nānāpur.[2533] Tāj Khān _Sārang-khānī_ came from Chunār to this ground with his two young sons, and waited on me. In these days a dutiful letter came from Pay-master Sl. Muḥammad, saying that my family and train were understood to be really on their way from Kābul.[2534] (_March 23rd_) On Wednesday (_13th_) we marched from that ground. I visited the fort of Chunār, and dismounted about one _kuroh_ beyond it. During the days we were marching from Pīāg, painful boils had come out on my body. While we were on this ground, an Ottoman Turk (Rūmī) used a remedy which had been recently discovered in Rūm. He boiled pepper in a pipkin; I held the sores in the steam and, after steaming ceased, laved them with the hot water. The treatment lasted 2 sidereal hours. While we were on this ground, a person said he had seen tiger and rhinoceros on an _ārāl_[2535] by the side of the camp. (_March 24th_?) In the morning (_14th_?), we made the hunting-circle[2536] [Sidenote: Fol. 364b.] on that _ārāl_, elephants also being brought. Neither tiger nor rhino appeared; one wild buffalo came out at the end of the line. A bitter wind rising and the whirling dust being very troublesome, I went back to the boat and in it to the camp which was 2 _kurohs_ (4m.) above Banāras.