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CHAPTER II. 
a.d. 1506— 1519. 
On the seventh of February 1506, Baber was at- 
tacked with a severe illness, which confined him to 
his bed forty days. Upon his recovery, he marched 
towards Khorassan to meet Sultan Hussyn Mirza. 
great grandson of Timur Beg, who united with his re- 
lative against the Uzbecks their mutual enemies. On 
his way he was joined by his brother Jehangire Mirza. 
That prince came to his brother’s camp, besought his 
pardon for past injuries, and proceeded with the 
army. Whilst absent on this expedition, a report 
of the king’s death was circulated at Cabul,* but 
the rumour was soon silenced by his return, with- 
out having effected anything decisive against the 
Uzbecks. Towards the end of this year, Nasir 
Mirza, Baber’s youngest brother, to whom the go- 
vernment of Badakhshan had been assigned, was de- 
feated by one of the generals of Sheebany Khan ; he 
consequently came to Cabul, and sought the protection 
of his royal relative Jehangire Mirza, who had given 
himself up to excess, and dying about this time, the 
government of Ghizny was conferred upon Nasir Mirza. 
The following year, Baber marched against the Ghil- 
gies, a tribe inhabiting a tract to the south-east of 
