1920-22 Draft of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Page 146

Chytra XXXVII Obviously I was well again, and I began to remember why I had come to Delhi in the first place. I (a scratched) Mother was dead; The Turks were intending to march on Herat when I had set out, y I heard some rumour later (a large scribbled section too difficult to make out). My main contest was not Tughlaq but "rebels" against Turkish rule in the decreasing areas. When I was at Kalinjar, and Bundelkhandi ruler, owed allegiance to Delhi, but an a series of punitive wars had to be fought until he ceased armed opposition. At one point I had to flee across the Tons after a defeat tnat resulted badly, not for my life but the sufferings I ordered for villagers we made war on to break their nerve to resist. The cash never came in far enough, so loot in kind became as large a part of what we lived on as taxation. Meanwhile Mubarak's troops were cutting a swath across Malwa, and in vited (rather than the orders I have read were the original) men under his suzerainty, not suzerains of Delhi's. As ever, the local was the largest and in these lands only the greatest of forces could hope to subdue the myriad strong points and armed forces of a long history which ...cle else ... than stand on its own. If now wilderness is to rear its head, we have it to thank the ravishing greed of the Turk-Afghan armies bent on collecting revenues from the population, to forward to the capital. I myself helped make this a reality. By April the monsoon was threaten... . ... ... ... attack of cholera in the rains on the Jamuna. It rose .... which ... of ... own men into town. I myself stayed back w... Ins ... with the chakla and some ... well (a smudge) ... so to avoid all that mud ...tha, with us. Then we thought it might be ... fever I suppose, but that as least. Then we set a camp a little away ... strange creek ... lay for several days, until I mended enough to try. It cost a life in sighting us on .. illa, ... by march ... ... ground . ... ... . I made out ... cross ... place ... the wagon I had hired for the ... hurt, I still ... able to mount ...horse ... it was then that a ...... to ... back ... pass across ... . I ... feared it might be best to attack a flatland ... or some .... ... minor.....s, where what was then all Mann; ...ther around the west reaches of old Hindu Mewar; or they we had passed towards ... and land of ... and Foothills on our right, as we sat ... vith the way before us. One ... side was ... ... at Kankroi, where we ... the Dattachas. ... passed on into Gujarat. Earlier I had sent word to Krishna ... that I looked to join him down in Kalbarga ... Shanti Prasad ... ... the tall Shekavati had recently ... . Mr.... end was ... ther ... than I, Timur having Rashid, ... Scind, ... ... ... of Jidda's scians ... his other-men, and ... ...ters as wel ants "teethi", and few a rare ...... ... we ..... Khan (a blank space), which Dr. descended Munner was attacking Sanga and ... deep inside ... ... we the battle ... ... some years the earlier) due. He took the fort (some scrawls) and in it (a writing smear). S.... few ... my vidden. This was a red coat and (a red smudge). Dyala 'a was chained there at the other end for far worse than ... the same ... ... record, and the ... in the famion. To the ... ... plied much.... and the less the order of food and goods in, or the lack of supplies. .... (a smudge) ships that they be ... had the price in (a smudge) for a day, a season and calms. Deo then being ...on his petty interests for the next service, wanted ships for which lest time (a smudge) ... its port regions. ... ... ..... ... ........ ... ..... ..... Oman, where lime was over, and the following morning and hall ... the ... a rather warm sea during a freak wind. Fall a.nd ... Ood Janara. a neither wild, ... the