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the accident of the fall from the roof occurred on Friday the 16th 
Rabi-al-awwal, and not on the 11th, and that he died on the follow- 
ing Sunday the 18th. Then it adds, p. 376, that Humaytin was 
wrapped ina blanket, or dressing-gown (galimwar) at the time, 
and was leaning on his staff when the latter slipped on the stones. 
When he came to his senses, he repeated the Kalima. Then follow 
several chronograms. Khizr Khwajah Khan, the husband of 
Gulbadan Begam, is mentioned as one of those who concealed the 
fact of the death for some days. 
In the account of Akbar’s conquest of Hajiptir we are told 
that Rajah Gajpati (of the Dumraon family) assisted with 2,000 
Cherus, and in mentioning Da’tid’s escape by boat from Patna on 
the night of Sunday 21 Rabi-as-sani the new circumstance is 
given that he fled to Tanda. When the bridge over the Pin Pin 
was broken down by the flying Afghans, some 2,000 of them were 
killed. 
The Elliot MS. gives, besides the introduction, a few extracts 
from the notices of poets in the body of the work. Among them is 
the interesting account of Wafai, 7.e., Zainu-d-din Khwafi, who was 
Babar’s Sadr, or ecclesiastical judge, and who translated, or para- 
phrased Babar’s Memoirs. It is this account which has been 
borrowed by Badayiini (see Dr. Ranking’s translation, p. 609). 
I hope that this notice may lead to the discovery of the ori- 
ginal work, and if not, that someone will publish the extracts in 
the Elliot Manuscript. 
24th July, 1905. 
