reception, and forbidding them to appear at court. But the mind of
Akbar could not long harbour resentment, and he soon forgave them.

Of the three expeditions, that against the Baluchis alone was
immediately successful. These hardy warriors submitted without
resistance to the Mughal Emperor. As soon as the efforts of Todar
Mall and Man Singh had opened the Khaibar Pass, Akbar appointed the
latter, the nephew and heir to the Jaipur Raja, to be Governor of
Kabul, and sent {133} him thither with a sufficient force, other
troops being despatched to replace him in the Yusufzai country, and
Peshawar being strongly occupied. Akbar had himself returned to
Lahore. Thence he directed a second expedition against Kashmir. As
this force approached the Passes, in the summer of 1587, a rebellion
broke out against the actual ruler in Srinagar. The imperial force
experienced then no difficulty in entering and conquering the
country, which thus became a portion of the Mughal empire, and, in
the reign of the successor of Akbar, the summer residence of the
Mughal sovereigns of India. It may here be mentioned that to reach
Jamrud, at the entrance of the Khaibar Pass, Man Singh had to fight
and win another battle with the hill-tribes. He reached Kabul,
however, and established there a stable administration. The Kabulis
and the heads of the tribes, however, complained to Akbar that the
rule of a Rajput prince was not agreeable to them, whereupon Akbar
translated Man Singh in a similar capacity to Bengal, which just then
especially required the rule of a strong hand, and replaced him at
Kabul by a Musalman. He announced at the same time his intention of
paying a visit to that dependency.

First of all, he secured possession of Sind (1588); then, in the
spring of the following year, set out for Kashmir. On reaching
Bhimbar, he left there the ladies of his harem with Prince Murad, and
rode express to Srinagar. He remained there, visiting {134} the
neighbourhood, till the rainy season set in, when he sent his harem
to Rotas. They joined him subsequently at Attock on his way to Kabul.
The Passes to that capital were open, all opposition on the part of
the hill-tribes having ceased, so Akbar crossed the Indus at Attock,
and had an easy journey thence to Kabul. He stayed there two months,
visiting the gardens and places of interest. 'All the people, noble
and simple, profited by his presence.'[4] He was still at Kabul when
news reached him of th