4 SOCIAL SCIENTIST wood, each including an upper chamber and balcony, that are set up in a suitable and attractive place. At the time of departure, each board is dismantled, and, at the time of encamping, the boards are joined together by iron rings. The insides of these houses are clothed by covers of European brocade and European velvet, and the outside thereof are covered by broadcloth.5 The supplementing of texts by wooden boards to create prefabricated and movable structures was an interesting innovation, which, though described later in some detail by Abu'l Fazi, appears to have escaped general attention, especially since Blochmann's translation6 does not bring out the fact that the structures were essentially of wood, not of cloth or canvas. I offer a fresh translation: The A' in of Encampment and Campaign It is difficult to describe all of it, but a little of what is arranged during hunting expeditions and journeys to nearby places is put into writing, and an illustrative account offered. First, the Gulalbar is a wonderful fortress which His Majesty has created. In it the enclosure is very solid, and passage is closed or opened with lock and key. It is not less than 100 gaz by 100 gaz in area. On its eastern side, is set up a large tent-hall (bargah), with two high masts (sargha), containing 54 chambers [i.e. with 54 smaller poles around them], 24 gaz in length, 14 gaz in width.7 Inside [the Gulalbar], a large wooden raoti stands, and around it they have other curtained pavilions. Adjacent to it is put up a two-chambered (do-ashyana) wooden building, and that is the place of worship of His Majesty. Outside of it, in select order, 24 wooden raotis, each 10 gaz in length and 6 gaz in width, are raised, each set apart by curtain-walls. Ladies of the Imperial harem find repose there.8 What a 'wooden raoti1 was is duly described a little later in the A' in-i Farrash Khana: The wooden-raoh' is raised with ten pillars. Each of these is partly buried in the ground, and all are not made equal in height, for those on which the beam rests are slightly higher.9 The solidity is increased by [wooden] boards (dasa) placed above and below [the resting beam], and some rafters are placed over the beam and board. All are attached to each other by iron covers with male and female fits (human ra ahan jama ba-tarz-i nar-o-madagi paiwand dahad). The wall and roof are formed by woven bamboo. There are one or two doors, and they set up a [curtained] floor (suffa) [in front of the door] according to the size of the lower board (dasa). The interior is ornamented by brocade and velvet, and the exterior is girdled by broadcloth and silken tape.