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India, has fallen into our hands. I have sent (the Bulletin) to 
you, my dear son, in order that you may become acquainte 
with its contents. Hereafter whatever occurs will be reported 
to you. Goodbye. 
, NOTE. 
It seems strange that Babur should be so emphatic on 
the Persians. Perhaps, the explanation i is that Babur is replying 
to some enthusiastic expressions of Kamran about the Persians 
in a letter to which Babur’s is a reply. Babur’s letter is inter- 
esting on account of its domestic and affectionate character, 
and of its numerous quotations. It is a more natural and more 
pleasing letter than the somewhat pedantic and fault-finding 
French translation is a very good one to have been made in 
the early days of Chaghatai studies, and by a man who had 
not access to a Turki dictionary. It has been Beets useful to 
myself. Klaproth states that in the MS. he saw in St. Peters- 
burgh, Babur’s letter preceded the Memoirs. AY p. 135 of his 
article he gives the note dated 1550 which mentions the acaui- 
sition of the MS. by a former owner 
s for the station Haji Tash which is mentioned in eee 
note of 057 A.H I am inclined to think that Haji Tash m 
(see Ency. of Islam, No. XI, p. 691) and that the station was 
somewhere in Asia Minor and in what may be called the Bektash 
country. There is a Simau Tau or mountain range, and there 
shrine at Eski shahr. The unnamed traveller may have been 
on his way from Constantinople or Smyrna. 
est the existence of an interesting vocabulary should be 
overlooked, I desire to notice here that the third volume of 
Klaproth’s Westies Relatifs contains at a 113-256 a curi- 
“ list of words in Latin, Persian and Com They come 
rom a MS. left by the poet Petrarch to the Republic of Venice 
in 1303. The Comans are a nation or tribe inhabiting the 
northern shores of the Black Baa: and their language is allied 
to Turkish. 
H. BEVERIDGE. 
26th July. 1919. 
! Babur’s Memoirs, Leyden and Erskine’s translation, p. 390. 
