The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 22.6.3

22.6.3

On the 3rd Urdibihisht I rode to see the Sukh Nag. It is a beautiful summer residence (yilaq). This waterfall is in the midst of a valley, and flows down from a lofty place. There was still ice on its sides. The entertainment of Thursday was arranged for in that flower-land, and I was delighted at drinking my usual cups on the edge of the water. In this stream I saw a bird like a saj. A saj is of a black colour and has white spots, while this bird is of the same colour as a bulbul with white spots, and it dives and remains for a long time underneath, and then comes up from a different place. I ordered them to catch and bring two or three of these birds, that I might ascertain whether they were waterfowl and were web-footed, or had open feet like land birds. They caught two and brought them. One died immediately, and the other lived for a day. Its feet were not webbed like a duck’s. I ordered Nadiru-l-'asr Ustad Mansur to draw its likeness. The Kashmiris call it galkari — that is, “water saj.” On this day the Qazi and the Chief Justice represented to me that ‘Abdu-l-Wahhab, the son of Hakim ‘Ali, claimed Rs. 80,000 from the Sayyids of Lahore, and produced a bond with the seal of Qazi Nuru-llah. He said that his father had placed that sum in deposit with Sayyid Wali, the father of these men, who denied it. If an order were given, the Hakim’s son, by way of caution, would swear an oath on the Qoran, and would take what was his due from them.