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 THE MEMOIRS OF BABUR

SECTION I. FARGHANA.

IN the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

In the month of Ramzan of the year 899 (June 1494) and in the twelfth year of my age, I became ruler in the country of Farghāna. Haidarabad MS. fol. 16.

(a. Description of Farghāna.)

Farghāna is situated in the fifth climate and at the limit of settled habitation. On the east it has Kāshghar; on the west, Samarkand; on the south, the mountains of the Badakhshān border; on the north, though in former times there must have been towns such as Almālīgh, Ālmātū and