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 248 THE MEMOIRS OF THE EMPEROR BABAR while we stayed there it rained incessantly and was so extremely cold that many of the starving and hungry Hindustanis died. After marching from Rupur, we halted at Karil opposite Sirhind, and there a Hindu- stani presented himself, assuming the style of an am- bassador from Sultan Ibrahim. Though he had no let- ters or credentials, yet, as he requested that one of my people might accompany him back as my ambas- sador, I sent a Sawadi Tinkatar along with him. These poor men had no sooner arrived in Ibrahim's camp than he ordered them both to be thrown into prison, but the very day that we defeated Ibrahim, the Sawadi was set at liberty and waited on me. After two marches more we halted on the banks of the stream of Banur and Sanur, which is a running water, of which there are few in Hindustan, except large rivers. They call it the stream of Kagar, and Chitor stands on its banks. At this station we had information that Sultan Ibrahim, who was on this side of Delhi, was advancing, and that Hamid Khan Kha- sah-khail, the military collector of revenue for the prov- ince of Hisar-Firozah, had also advanced ten or fifteen leagues toward us, with the army of Hisar-Firozah and of the neighbouring districts. I sent Kittah Beg toward Ibrahim's camp to procure intelligence, and despatched Mumin Atkah toward the army of Hisar-Firozah to get information of its movements. On Sunday, the thirteenth of Jumada-1-awwal, I had marched from Ambala and had halted on the margin of a tank, when Mumin Atkah and Kittah Beg both