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 VICTORIES AT UCHH AND MULTAN 99 and baggage were in ships and boats moored in front of the camp. On Friday, after the time of prayer, some swift runners came from the direction of Multan and re- ported that Malik Nasir-ad-din Aitamur had been detached from Lahore and had come to the fort of Multan; and also that Sultan Shams-ad-din Altamish himself was marching onward to Uchh by way of Ta- barhindh. Malik Na- sir-ad-din Kubacha immediately fled with all his army in boats to Bhakkar and or- dered his minister, Ain-al-Mulk Husain Ashghari, to remove all the treasure from the fortress of Uchh and transfer it to Bhakkar. Sultan Shams-ad-din then sent two of his principal generals in advance with an army to the walls of Uchh. Four days later, the Sultan himself arrived at Uchh with all his elephants and baggage, and pitched his tents there. He sent his minister, Nizam-ad-din Mohammad Junaidi, with other nobles, in pursuit of Malik Nasir- A HOUSE AT MULTAN.