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ing his family at Amurkote under the Rajah’s charge, 
immediately marched with the troops placed under his 
command to Tatta, the capital of the Delta of the Indus. 
It was while encamped on the banks of a tank 
on his march towards that capital, about thirty- 
four miles from Amurkote, that he received the joyful 
intelligence of prince Akbar’ s birth. 
“ Humayoon, after returning thanks to God, left his 
family in the hands of the Rana, and with his as- 
sistance marched towards Bhukkur. But a mutiny 
breaking out among the Rana’s troops, they dispersed, 
and nothing could be effected. Some of the King’s 
officers also deserted him, while the gallant Ameer 
Sheikh Ali, one of his most faithful adherents, was 
killed in an action with Shah Hussein Arghoon. 
Humayoon now retired towards Candahar, having 
been joined by Beiram Khan Turkoman from Guzerat. 
Kamran Mirza, who had obtained possession of Can- 
dahar from his brother Hindal Mirza, had placed 
Askurry Mirza in the government, and Shah Hussein 
Arghoon now wrote to him that Humayoon, being 
without followers, might easily be seized ; so that As- 
kurry Mirza, instead of affording his brother aid in his 
distress, attacked Humayoon as he approached Can- 
dahar, and obliged him to leave his infant son Akbar 
behind in camp, and fly to Khorassan with his mother, 
the Sultana, and only twenty-two horsemen, one of 
whom was Beiram Khan. Askurry Mirza being dis- 
appointed of his object, on coming into Humayoon’s 
camp, carried off his nephew, the infant Akbar, to 
Candahar. 
Humayoon, finding he could place no reliance on 
