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With reference to Erskine's remark at the top of p. 124, 1 

 and in order to prevent misconception, it is necessary for me to 

 state that there is no doubt that Babar eventually rejoined his 

 uncles after his flight from Akhsi. My point is that he did not 

 do so at Andijan, at least not within a few days after his flight 

 from AkhsL What happened was, apparently, that the Khans 

 returned to Farghana 2 after their retreat, and in company with 

 Babar were defeated by ShaibanI near AkhsL That the Khans 

 were not at Andijan at the time of Babar 's flight has already 

 been shown. To that evidence may be added the indication 

 furnished by the direction of his flight. He wanted to join the 

 Khans and called upon his pursuers to help him in doing so, 

 but he did not go towards Andijan and he spoke to the men 

 about wishing to cross the river and to proceed to Khojand, 

 Erskine, p. 120. Unfortunately Babar does not tell us the da} 

 or month when he fled from AkhsL But at p. 121 of Erskine, 

 we are told that it was winter and excessively cold. The flight 

 therefore must have been in nearly the middle of 908, viz., 

 December 1502 or January 1503. It was probably in the 

 following spring that the battle took place between ShaibanI 

 and the Khans, though it may have occurred in 909. 



1 The existence of gaps containing the accounts of several years is 

 noticed in the Padshahnama I. 42 as occurring in a MS. in the Imperial 

 Library in Babar's own handwriting. 



* Erskine did not know the T. Rashldi when he was translating the 



Memoirs. His later work, the History of India, corrects some of the 



statements in the notes to his translation. See I. 184 for account of the 

 battle. 



3 Khojend, which is mentioned by Babar as the place they retreated 

 to, was often not reckoned as part of Farghana (Erskine 9). At least it is 

 in the extreme west of it, and is, # apparently, not now included in the 

 Russian district of Farghana, but in Samarkand. See Kostenko's Tur- 

 kistan I. 347. 



