Storia do Mogor 65.39.4

65.39.4

Dara would have liked to allow his men a longer rest, but this was impossible, owing to the near approach of the enemy. Nor had the rajah the requisite force to resist the harassing pursuit of Jai Singh and Bahadur Khan. Thus Dara was forced to resume his flight to the river country of Sind, where the inhabitants, directly they heard of his approach, took to flight with their boats, fearing that Dara, after he had used them for crossing, would burn them, as he had done during his earlier flight. Great were the trouble and the danger in which the prince was, being on the one hand pursued by the enemy trying hard to overtake him, and on the other, hindered by the treacherous streams, to pass which there were not enough boats. Therefore he decided to cross the river on rafts, making use of the trees and all the wood from buildings, breaking up the houses for this purpose. Not without great efforts did he succeed in reaching the farther bank of the river, where he found himself with no more than five hundred men; for of the two thousand with which he had left Ahmadabad, the rest had deserted or had been killed.