1898.] H. Beveridge —Memoirs of Bayazid ( Bajazet ) Biyat. 
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from Samarqand, lie bad written the date and the number of bis com¬ 
panions, and that it was proper be sbonld make a similar record. 
So be engraved the date, &c., with his own blessed band. Abu’l-fazl 1 
also tells this story, (AJcbarnama I, 282), and says that the occasion of 
Babar’s patting up the inscription was the submission to him of his 
brothers, Khan Mirza and Jahangir. It was, he says, in accordance 
with this precedent that Humayun engraved the inscription, for his 
brothers, Kamran and ‘Askari, had just been reconciled to him and 
performed homage. But I have been unable to find the passage in 
Babar’s Memoirs. At p. 101 of these Memoirs Babar records the 
cutting of an inscription near a spring, but this was in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Farghana, and again at p. 233 there is a reference to the 
cutting of an inscription, but this too is not the Tshkamish one. If 
Abu’l-fazl’s statement is correct, he must, I think, have got it from 
some other source than the Memoirs. 
It does not appear that there was any fresh discussion at Karan 
about going to Balkh, it having already been decided apparently that 
the expedition should not take place that year. At Karan therefore 
the brothers separated, and Kamran received Kulab as his fief. 
Humayun went on to Parian where he repaired the fort constructed 
by his ancestor Timur. From Parian he paid a visit to some silver 
mines. He sent for miners and had an experimental working made 
but found that the produce would not repay the cost of excavation. 
After this he resumed his march to Kabul, and on coming to the 
Ushtarkaram (?) pass he lost his way. The servants who were ahead 
went to find out the road but could not. At last a man was seen 
going along on foot. He was hailed and asked his name (p. 416). “ A 
servant of God,” he replied. “We are all servants of God,” re¬ 
joined Humayun, “ tell us your real name.” My name is “ Khak ” 
(earth), replied the man. Humayun on this said, “What is your pro¬ 
per name ? what sense is there in the word khak ? ” He then replied, 
“ Then call me what you like.” %iiumayun who had been already put 
out by losing his road, now got very angry and said, “ Shall I call you 
a kite or a muck-rake (Guh dalal) ? ” “ During the five or six years,” 
says Bayazid, “ that I had been in attendance on him, I had never 
seen him so put out before.” After this colloquy the man became their 
guide and brought them to the village of Ushtarkaram. Humayun 
spent the following winter in Kabul and then set out early in the spring 
of 1549 on the expedition against Balkh. 
1 The visit of the four brothers to the fountains is also mentioned by Jauhar, 
Stewart, p. 92. 
