AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1583-91- 



great citie and populous, built with stone, having faire 

 and large streetes, with a faire river running by it, which 

 falleth into the gulfe of Bengala. It hath a faire castle 

 and a strong with a very faire ditch. Here bee many 

 Moores and Gentiles, the king is called Zelabdim 

 The great Echebar : the people for the most part call him The 

 Mogor. great Mogor. From thence we went for Fatepore, which 



is the place where the king kept his court. The towne 

 is greater then Agra, but the houses and streetes be not 

 so faire. Here dwell many people both Moores and 

 Gentiles. The king hath in Agra and Fatepore as they 

 doe credibly report 1000. elephants, thirtie thousand 

 horses, 1400. tame Deere, 800. concubines: such store of 

 Ounces, Tigers, Buffles, Cocks & Haukes, that is very 

 strange to see. He keepeth a great court, which they 

 call Dericcan. Agra and Fatepore are two very great 

 cities, either of them much greater then London and very 

 populous. Betweene Agra and Fatepore are 12. miles, 

 The like is re- and all the way is a market of victuals & other things, 

 ported of the ^^ £^|| ^^ though a man were still in a towne, and so 

 China many people as if a man were in a market. They have 



many fine cartes, and many of them carved and gilded 

 with gold, with two wheeles which be drawen with two 

 litle Buls about the bignesse of our great dogs in 

 England, and they will runne with any horse, and carie 

 two or three men in one of these cartes : they are covered 

 with silke or very fine cloth, and be used here as our 

 Coches be in England. Hither is great resort of mar- 

 chants from Persia and out of India, and very much 

 marchandise of silke and cloth, and of precious stones, 

 both Rubies, Diamants, and Pearles. The king is 

 apparelled in a white Cabie made like a shirt tied with 

 strings on the one side, and a litle cloth on his head 

 coloured oftentimes with red or yealow. None come into 

 his house but his eunuches which keepe his women. 

 Here in Fatepore we staied all three untill the 28. of 

 September 1585. and then master John Newberie tooke 

 his journey toward the citie of Lahor, determining from 



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