He is Mīrzā La‘l Beg, the son of Shāh Qulī Sulān of Badakh-shān. He is a young man of exceeding nobility of disposition, and is distinguished by the delicacy of his beauty, and as well known for the purity of his nature as for his beauty of form. He is remarkable for his good manners, his humility, his amiable dis­position, his courtesy, and his modesty, and he is one of the inti­mate associates of the emperor. At the present time a farmān has been issued from court to him in the Dakan ordering him to leave the service of Sulān Murād* and to join the court at Lāhor. He is very well read in history, and in travels. The author is bound to him by bonds of mutual acquaintance and great regard.

He sometimes occupies himself with poetry, and the following couplet from his poems remains in the author's memory:—

“Since I have become as the dust of the road in thy path I
fear
Lest thou should not pass by me, but should take another
way.”