118 H. G. Raverfcy— Tibbat three hundred and sixty-five years ago . [No. 2, 
accompany us, with all their families and belongings, into Badakhshan. 
At last, I managed to dismiss these kind-hearted people, and proceeded 
onwards into Badakhshan, to Sullman Shah Mirza, who is the son of 
Mirza Khan, who was my maternal aunt’s son. He came forth to 
receive me, and did everything in his power to show me honour and 
respect; and I gave thanks unto God, that, after all these dangers, 
1 had reached such a place of safety and security. 
“ At the time that I reached Akhawan, which is the sar-hadd, 1 or 
boundary of Badakhshan 2 * * * * * [on that side], a man in the service of Rashid 
Sultan who was there on some affair, presented himself before me; and 
I gave him a letter in TurkI to deliver to Rashid Sultan, on the subject 
of his recreant conduct and unfaithfulness. * * * # He, soon 
after, had the kindness to expel from his territory my wdfe, who was 
the mother’s sister of Rashid Sultan himself, and sent Iskandar Sultan 
before mentioned, along with her. Another great favour on Rashid’s 
part was, that he did not plunder her of all she was possessed of, as he 
had treated others of his kindred. They, in much anxiety of mind, 
and in very distressed circumstances, along with some others, about ten 
in all, arrived in Badakhshan.” 8 # * * * 
That winter was passed by Muhammad Haidar Mirza in Badakh¬ 
shan in comparative comfort, and, in the spring, in the hills and plains 
thereof ; and in the summer he came to Kabul. There many others of 
the family of the late Sultan Sa‘id Khan, expelled from the Kashghar 
territory by Rashid Sultan, also arrived. Subsequently Muhammad 
Haidar Mirza set out for Hindustan; and when he reached Lahor, 
Kamran Mirza [son of Babar Badshah] was then there, who received 
him with honour and great kindness. He says, that about this time, 
Sam Mirza, son of Shah Isma‘il, Safawi, and brother of Shah Thama- 
sib, the then ruler of Iran Zamin, tried to take Qandahar from Kamran 
Mirza. This event happened in 941 H. (1538 A.D.), but, after invest- 
1 This word incorrectly written, “ Sarhad” has been mistaken for the proper 
name of a place, and still appears in our maps as such, and also as “ Sarhad WaJc- 
han .” The Waklian district terminates here, as the words Sar-hadd-i-Waklian 
mean ; and this place is not more than eighteen or twenty miles from the Palpi 
Sang Pass. 
2 Because Waklian has always been part of the Badakhshan territory. 
8 Mirza Muhammad Haidar forgave ‘Abdu-r-rashid Sultan — for ‘Abdu-r- 
rashid is his correct or full name—for his ill-treatment of himself and friends, as 
he had been led to commit most of his misdeeds by one of his Amirs, Muhammadi 
by name, of the Burlas tribe of Muglials, whom he subsequently rid himself of, and 
repented of his misdeeds. When Mirza Muhammad Haidar wrote his work in 
953 H. (1546 A.D.), he named it after ‘Abdu-r-rashid Sultan and styled it “ Tarikh- 
i-Rashidi.” 
