d/-e¿í/ QyTtaÁr/L&óúJ
left thé 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 ñone ; and
at evefy tenth cofs, a Choultry, or Caravanfera, for travellers*.;
T h é -whole .diftànce from Agra to Agimere, is a hundred and
thirty Britijh' miles; Théfe Were imperial works !
'jehangir kept his court at the latter, at the time , that Sir S i r T h o m a s
Thomas Roe was fent by gur "james I. on his interefting em- RoE'
bafiy to the great Mogul. . No monarch ever did more good to.
his fubjeits, by .his attention to commerce, at that time in its
infancy, than our defpifed .prince.; e Sir Thomas landed at Surat,
i n September 1615; continuèd-following the court to différent
places', till 1618, and received every mark o f exterior favor,
notwithftanding the Eajl India Company, with mercantile
meannefs,' furñiihéd him with prefents ill-fuitéd to the gran-
, deur of the Britijh nation. . The embaffy proved, on the whole,
fruitlëfsji and he returned home, after doing all that a pérfon of
his abilities could to ferve his country; Hé was fruftrated.by
the'deceit,'meannefs, and rapacity'of an eaftem court *.
The approach to the coafts we left, is; fignified by t-he'ap- S e a - S n a k e s .
pearanoe of fea-fnakes; the hiftoriah defcribes them ofa-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
trite.; Sea-friakes are very frequent in , the torrid zones, - My-
VAJmae'r gives, in one <jf his fafciculi, figures iof two of the fea-
ferpents :. one is fafciated with brown and white; the other fias
a brown hack and whitefielly. The tail, of ieach is 'flat,' ex-
Heylin’sCofmogr. .book iiia p.198.
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