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H. Beveridge —Memoirs of Bayazid (Bcijazet ) Biyat. [No. 4, 
Bayazid was now in the service of Jalalu-d-din Mahmud of Aubah, 
as his saman or butler and lie relates how Jalalu-d-din sent him from 
Kabul to Jalalabad with a quantity of ice, grapes, riwaj , lemonade and 
sugar-candy, as a present to Akbar. In spite of tbe heat of Jalalabad, he 
says, the ice arrived intact as the box had bran in it and was wrapt 
in felt. Akbar was highly delighted with the ice, ate a portion, and 
had some put into his water bottle, and also distributed it to his officers. 
He then questioned Bayazid about public affairs. Bayazid had brought 
a letter from Jalalu-d-din in which he asked where Akbar would take 
up his quarters when he came to Kabul. Akbar asked Bayazid 
what season it was in Kabul, and when he replied that the white roses 
were in bloom in the Shall Aral garden, Akbar ordered that his dinner 
should be prepared in that place. Afterwards Akbar proceeded 
to the Bagh Wafa at Adanipar, which was a famous garden made by his 
grandfather, and again questioned Bayazid about public affairs, and 
about Balkb and Samarqand. He wrote a reply to Jalalu-d-din and 
Bayazid went off in the evening with it to Kabul. He travelled with 
great expedition for he arrived next day on the Shab-i-barat, (6th 
August, 1552), before the people had lighted up for the festival. 
This was good going as the distance (from Adanipur) is about 180 
miles and he tells us that old soldiers were astonished at his coming so 
quickly. He was alone too, and the roads were bad. He now gives 
a cook’s chronicle of how he prepared dinner for Akbar in the Awarta 
Bagh (? middle garden) and how Akbar arrived next day at noon 
and was regaled by him with pheasants’ wings (qul-i-qairgha) and how 
the prince sent the remainder of the birds to the Begams. 
At p. 696. Bayazid incidentally mentions that Mun‘im Khan’s 
father, Miram Beg, was guardian of Mirza ‘Askar!, and had charge of 
Qandahar, and that on the occasion of an attack by the Hazaras he 
sacrificed his own life in order to let the prince escape. This is a 
valuable supplement to Blochmann’s account of Mun‘im Khan which says 
(p. 317) that nothing appears to be known of the circumstances of 
Mun'im’s father, Miram (or Bairam) Beg. 
At p. 72a. we have it recorded that in the spring of 960, (1553), two 
sons were born to Humayun in one month. One was Muhammad 
Hakim, who was afterwards ruler of Kabul, and whose mother was 
Cucak Begam, and the other was Muhammad Farkh Fal whose 
mother was Khanish, the daughter of Cacaq Mirza of Khwarizm, 
but who only survived for a few days. 
The fourth chapter of the Memoirs commences with a very full 
list of the officers who accompanied Humayun, Akbar, and Bairam to 
India. 
