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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 Daronta, landed 



a. d. 1520, higher up than Jehannumah ; we went to the Bagh-i- 

 January7th. y af ^ w hj c h is opposite Adinapoor ; Kiam Urdooshah, 

 the Hakim of Nungnihar, met us as we landed from the raft.** 



In the events of the year 1525, Babur writes on the 8th of Sefer. 

 (Nov. 24th.) " In halting atGundummuk 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 17th Hoomaiun arrived; that 

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

 tween 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 reach- 

 ed Kosh Goombuz, where I landed and joined the camp.** Babur pro- 

 ceeded to Peshawur (Begram)" 



In the year 1570, Jullaloodeen Mahomed Akbar Badshah, when 

 proceeding from Cabul to India, desired Shumshoodeen Khafee to 

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

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

 governor of Jullalabad. 



The historian Abdool Kadir Budwanee, in confirmation of the 

 above, states ; " On the banks of the Nila, 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-Vufa, made by Sooltan Babur, near which was Adinapoor, the 

 place where the governor resided." The same author says, that Nung- 

 nihar 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 town. The following is an inscription on a marble slab taken 

 from an ojd fort, and placed in the principal Musjid of the town, 



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

 Kujju and Gundiunmuk. 



