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had formerly been employed in the performance of this service, and 

 the recording of these events appertained to the duties of his office, 

 I gave him my commands, that from the date up to which I had 

 written [my memoires] he should continue them, and add them to my 

 draft ; and whatever occurrences should take place subsequently, these 

 he should enter in a diary, which having submitted to me for correc- 

 tion, he should afterwards write out fairly " 



This passage explains away much that was in doubt regarding these 

 memoires. It gives us the emperor's own authority for the fact that 

 lie was in the habit of writing drafts of his autobiography, that prior 

 to his discontinuing to write his memoires with his own hand, Mota- 

 mad Khan had been employed in aiding him, probably in revising or 

 correcting his MS. ; and that the practice of entering the occurrences 

 in a diary (roz-ndmchah) was still continued after the MS. was drafted 

 by Motamad Khan, and corrected by the Emperor. It is not impro- 

 bable, then, that the whole of the Jahdngir-nameh, or autobiography 

 proper, which Mr. Morley calls the second or Mohammad Hadi's edition, 

 and which is that published by Saiyid Ahmad, may have been written 

 in the form we now have it, by Motamad Khan, who, would seem, for 

 some considerable time at least, to have acted as Private Secretary to 

 the Emperor. And this supposition is in some measure supported by 

 the fact, that after Jahangir gave orders to Motamad Khan to continue 

 his memoires, he did so for two years, and there is no perceptible 

 change in the style of the work. Again, as proof of the intimate 

 relations that existed between Motamad Khan and his royal master, 

 Jahangir in his memoires states, that in setting out for Kashmir he 

 gave instructions not to the Vazir but to Motamad Khan, that no 

 one should accompany him except the Prime-minister, Asif Khan, and < 

 a few necessary servants ; and while on this journey, on the occasion 

 of his elevation to the office of Paymaster General, in bestowing on 

 him a hhil'at, he took off his own cloak and gave it to him. 



Why the continuation of the memoires by Motamad Khan should 

 have stopped short at the nineteenth year of the emperor's reign is 

 unexplained ; nor, seeing that Motamad Khan carried his own history 

 down to the date of the Emperor's death, can I in any way account for 

 it, other than that His Majesty found it irksome to revise and correct 

 the diary of his Secretary. That Mohammad Hadi had no royal data 



