The Memoirs of Bābur 1.2

1.2

Next morning, being Thursday the 17th [16], we crossed the ford with our horses, camels, and baggage; the camp bazar and the infantry were floated across on rafts. The same day the inhabitants of Nilab waited on me, bringing an armed horse and 300 Shah-rukhis as a peshkash. As soon as we had got all our people across, that same day at noon-day prayers, we proceeded on our march, which we continued for one watch of the night, and halted at the river of Kachah-kot. Marching thence before day, we crossed the river of Kachah-kot, and the same evening surmounted the pass of Sangdaki, and halted. Saiyid Kasim, Ishak Agha, who brought up the rear-guard, took a few Gujars who followed the camp, cut off some of their heads and brought them in. Marching at the dawn from Sangdaki, and crossing the river Suhan about noon-day prayers, we encamped. Our stragglers continued to come in till midnight. It was an uncommonly long and severe march, and as it was made when our horses were lean and weak, it was peculiarly hard on them, so that many horses were worn out and fell down by the way. Seven kos from Bahrah to the north there is a hill. This hill, in the Zafar-ndma, and some other books, is called the hill of Jud. At first, I was ignorant of the origin of its name, but afterwards discovered that in this hill there were two races of men descended from the same father. One tribe is called Jud, the other Janjuhah. * * *