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rum 801, Hijree, (13th September 1398, a. d.) and came out on 

 the Indus at a fort previously built as a depot at Nufur.* Thence 

 marching rapidly down the Indus to the point where Julal-ood-deen 

 swam across after his defeat, (it is specifically so stated in the 

 Rozut-ool-sufa, the best historical authority,) he built a bridge across 

 the river in two days and crossed on the 12th Mohurrum, that is in 

 twelve days only from the time of his receiving the submission of the 

 Burniani tribe. 



After crossing, Tymoor made directly for the place of confluence 

 of the Jihlum and Chinab, and there reduced a chief, whose capital is 

 described as an island at this point strongly fortified, while he sent a 

 reinforcement to his grandson at Mooltan, and ordered him to join 

 him at Dybalpoor, which lies towards the Sutlej. 



Tymoor reducing Talumba, crossed the desert from that place to 

 the old bed of the Beas on the 1st of SufFur of the same year, 13th 

 October 1398, a. d., and on the 7th, captured Gokree or Gourkee : 

 then reducing Ajudia, which yielded and was respected, he effected 

 a junction with his grandson at Dybalpoor, and then prepared to cross 

 the Sutlej, and march on Bhutner in the Desert, where he learned that 

 the Hindoos had collected as in a place of security. 



Bhutner is at least sixty, some say ninety miles from the nearest point 

 of the Sutlej, with a waterless Desert for the whole distance. Tymoor, 

 however, made the march in one night with the bulk of his cavalry, sur- 

 prising there a large store of cattle and supplies that had been collect- 

 ed in full reliance upon the impassability of the Desert. 



After massacring the whole population of Bhutner, Tymoor went 

 by Sumana to Delhi, which he sacked. Thence he crossed to the Gan- 

 ges, and entering the Sewalik or lower range at Hurdwar, carried his 

 army back through the mountains to Jummoo and Kashmeer, and 

 thence to Kabool by the Khyber Pass; thus safely reconveying his 

 enormous booty to Samarkund, where he rested only sufficiently 

 long to prepare for his great expedition westward against Ildrim 

 Bayuzeed. 



The invasions of Babir and Nadir Shah present no peculiarities 

 in the routes taken. Babir was established as Sooltan of Kabool for 



* This may be Bukur or Nuker. There is a place of the former name at this part 

 of the Indus, but it is on the wrong side of the river. 



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