Chap. IV. 
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parts; as the Englijh have found by Ex- 
perience. 
The ciiy But before we take quite our leave of 
and cafile Suratte^ and the adjacent Territories; we 
# Agra, muft fay fonr^thing alfo concerning the 
City and Caftle of u^gra. This Caftle, 
the ordinary Refidence of the Great Mo- 
gul^ is one of the moft noble Struft'jres 
of the Eaft, feated upon the Banks of the 
River jemcni^ fortified with a ftrong Wall 
cf red Stone, v/ith large and deep Ditches, 
Draw-bridges, and four Gates. Here is 
alfu kept the King's Treafury, and the 
whole Court, or General AfTembly of the 
Great Men of the Empire, who often- 
times are not refrain'd by the Abfolute 
Authority of their Monarch, froai com- 
raitting moft barbarous Enoritiities. 
Murders Thus it happen'd ylugufh 4, 1544. in 
committed the Evening after Sun-fer^ when aii the 
'enceo/the ^^^^'^^^ Qiiality ufed to appear in the 
Khig! Gofalchanna to falute the King-, among 
the reft. Raja Ammerfing ( a Commander 
over 5000 Horfe, who had been abfent 
foine days by reafon of his Indifpofition ) 
making his appearance there, v/as ask'd 
by SiUabatchan the King's chief Bcthia, 
why he had not appear'd there in feveral 
days? Ke anf//erd hiin, Th:;t he had . 
been prevented by his IndirpouLion ^ ^^^^^^^^^ 
wherev^ith the other being not ratified, 
gave Raja fome opprobioiis words, which 
fo exafperated hiin, that without m^rt; 
ado he run SiUabatchan vnth his Scyme^n- 
thro the Body, laying hira de^d upon toe 
gonad. Another Lord named Galkhan., 
feeing the orher murder'd in tlie King's 
fighr, cut almoft off the Arm of Raja, 
and another Gentleman, the Son of Raja 
Kittelda^ difpatch'd him quir.e. The King 
fccmg this Tragical Spectacle, gave im- 
mediately Orders that the Body of Silla- 
batchaii ftould be carried to his Hnufe in 
order to his Burial but that the Body 
of Raja Amnir.fing fnouid be thrown 
into the River : bac icarce were they got 
with the Body without the Gate to exe- 
cute the Ki -g's Command, when fome of 
the Rasboutss (a rebellious Grew) who 
had ferv'd under him, feeing their Com- 
mander's Body dragM thus along, did 
fau upon the King's Servants, and kilTd 
above thirty of them, among whom was 
the King's Scepter- bearer ^ fo that if the 
King would fee his Orders put in Exe-'.u- 
tion, he was oblig'd to fend a connde- 
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