WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. go 



kft the lady, for a confiderable time, with the faints of Sikri! 

 The pilgrimage was made from Agra. On this occafion he 

 eredted at the end of every cofs, or mile and a half, a ftone ; and 

 at every tenth cofs, a Choultry, or Caravanferay for travellers *» 

 The whole diftance from Agra to Agimere, is a hundred and 

 thirty Britijh miles. Thefe were imperial works I 



Jehangir kept his court at the latter, at the time that Sir Sir Thomas 

 Thomas Roe was fent by our Jajnes I. on his interefting em- ^°^' 

 baffy to the great Mogul. No monarch- ever did more good to 

 his fubjedls, by his attention to commerce, at that time in its 

 infancy, than our defpifed prince. Sir Thomas landed at Suraty 

 m September 161^'-, continued following the court to dififerent 

 places till 1618, and received every mark of exterior favor, 

 notwithftanding the Eaji India Company, with mercantile 

 meannefs, furnilhed him with prefents ill-fuited to the gran- 

 deur of the Bri^lfh nation. The embafly proved, on the w^hole, 

 fruitlefs, and he returned home, after doing all that a perfon of 

 his abilities could to ferve his country. He was fruftrated by 

 the deceit, meannefs, and rapacity of an eaftern court *. 



The approach to the coafts we left, is fignified by the ap- Sea-Ssakes. 

 pearance of fea-fnakes ; the hiftorian defcribes them of a dufky 

 color, and thicker than the Lana ferpents. As to their fiery 

 eyes and dragon-like heads, I fmile at his credulity : the reft is 

 true. Sea-fnakes are very frequent in the torrid zones. M. 

 Vofmaer gives, in one of his fajciculiy figures of two of the fea- 

 ferpents : one is fafciated with brown and white ; the other has 

 a brown back and white belly. The tail of each is flat, ex- 



• Heylin's Cofmo^r. book ill. p. 198. 



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