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LIVES OP THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
felt in repairing to such a shelter, as the expulsion 
of those venomous inmates is attended with some 
danger and more difficulty. The natives, however, 
resort to these recesses without apprehension, and 
often pass the night in them surrounded by crea- 
tures which would scare the slumbers of a more fasti- 
dious European. 
Baber having marched from Delhi on the twenty- 
sixth of April, encamped near the suburbs of Agra 
on the fourth of May. 
