Note 146 — The Thirteenth New Year’s Feast

I had intended to pass the night in the fort, and the next day to return to camp. As the buildings inside the fort had been built after the fashion of the Hindus, and the rooms were without air and with little space, they did not please me, nor was I disposed to stay there. I saw a bath house, which one of the servants of Dastam146 K͟hān had built near the wall of the fort. A little garden and a lodging (nis͟hīman) which overlooks (mus͟hrif) the open space is not wanting in space and air, and there is no better place in the whole fort.147 Dastam K. was one of the Amīrs of the late King (Akbar), and from his early years had been brought up in his service. His connection with him was confidential and intimate. H.M. had entrusted this fort to him from his exceeding confidence in him.