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" In the hill country all the inhabitants are kafirs : in Kafirstan 

 grapes and fruits are extremely abundant, and it produces a great 

 quantity of wine, but in making, they boil it. In the hills of this 

 district they have the pine, the jilguzeh, the oak, and the mastic tree in 

 great abundance. 



" I embarked on a raft, and passing the Strait of Darounta, landed 



higher up than Jehan-numai ; we went to the Baghi 

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Vaia, which is opposite Adinapoor. Kiam Urdooshah, 



the hakim of Nungnihar, met us as we landed from the raft." 



On the events of the year 1525, Babur writes, " On the 8th of Sefer, 

 (November 24th) in halting at Gundummuk, I had a severe defluxion,* 

 but by the mercy of God it passed off without bad effects. On Saturday 

 I halted at the Bagh-i-Vafa, where I was forced to wait nine days 

 for Hoomaiun, and the army that was with him ; the garden was in great 

 glory, it is a charming place ; the few days we staid there we drank 

 a great quantity of wine. On Sunday the 1 7th, Hoomaiun arrived, that 

 evening we marched, and halted at a new garden, which I laid out 

 between Sooltanpoor and Khwajeh Rustam. 



"On Wednesday, we marched thence, when I embarked on a raft, 

 on which I proceeded down the river, drinking all the way till we 

 reached Kosh Goombuz, where I landed and joined the camp." Babur 

 proceeded to Peshawur, (Begram.) 



In the year 1570, Jullaloodeen Mahomed Akbar Badshah, when 

 proceeding from Cabul to India, desired Shumshoodeen Khaffee to 

 build the towns of Jullalabad and Attock, and which were completed in 

 two years. His son Selim, (Jehanghire,) was for some time acting 

 governor of Jullalabad. 



The historian, Abdool Kadir Budwanee, in confirmation of the above, 

 states, " On the banks of the Nilah, Akbar Badshah desired the town of 

 Jullalabad to be built : about three coss from the town is the Bagh-i- 

 Sufa, commonly called Char Bagh, formerly known as the Bagh-i-wufa, 

 made by Sooltan Babur, near which was Adinapoor, the place where 

 the governor resided." The same author says, " That Nungnihar in 

 former times was known by the name of the Joo-i-Shaee." 



During Shah Jehan's reign, that monarch made some additions to the 



* A complaint very prevalent in the summer of 1840, among the British Troops at 

 Kujja and Gundummuk. 



