The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 4.3.4

4.3.4

It was morning, and the Kabulis were off their guard, and grass-cutters and water-carriers were going in and out as usual Mirza Kamran went in with all these common people." So speaks the princess The gentle-hearted governor was at the hammam, and was brought before Kamran, without time given to dress, and there and then sabred The list of other cruelties and murders is too terrible reading for these pages, and the ensuing siege was full of barbarous acts Humayun crossed the passes as soon as it was practicable, and sat down to take the city When Kamran saw at length that he could not hold it, he escaped through a hole fashioned in the wall, got through the trenches and away to the mountains Some say Hindal let him pass the royal lines, others that Haji Muhammad Khan Koka overtook him later (so destitute that he was being carried by a man), and that Kamran appealed to their milk-brotherhood and was allowed to go free He then joined his hereditary foes, the Uzbegs.