[Footnote 404:  In this route from Masulipatan to Agra, there are several places of which the names are so disfigured as to be unintelligible.  Barrampore and Mandoway, are probably Burhampore and Candwah in the northern part of Candeish; Vgini and Serringe, may he Ougein and Seronge in Malwa.—­E.]

Agra is a very great and populous city built of stone, having large and handsome streets, upon a fine river which falls into the gulf of Bengal, and has a strong and handsome castle with a broad and deep ditch.  It is inhabited by many Moors and Gentiles, the king being Zelabdim Echebar, called for the most part the great Mogor.  From thence we went to Fatepore, where the king ordinarily resides and holds his court, which is called Derican.  This town is larger than Agra, but the streets and houses are by no means so good, but it is inhabited by a vast multitude of people, both Moors and Gentiles.  In Agra and Fatepoor, the king is said to have 1000 elephants, 30,000 horses, 1400 tame deer, 800 concubines, and such numbers of ounces, tigers, buffaloes, game-cocks, and hawks as is quite incredible.  Agra and Fatepoor are two great cities, either of them larger than London, and very populous, at the distance of 12 miles from each other[405].  The whole road between these places is one continued market of provisions and other articles, and is constantly as full of people as a street or market in a great and populous town.  These people have many fine carts, many of which are richly carved and gilt, having two wheels, and are drawn by two little bulls, not much larger than our biggest English dogs, which run with these carts as fast as any horse, carrying two or three men in each cart:  They are covered with silk or fine cloth, and are used like our coaches in England.  There is a great resort of merchants to this place from Persia and all parts of India, and vast quantities of merchandise, such as silks, cloths, and precious stones, diamonds, rubies, and pearls.  The king is dressed in a white cabie made like a shirt, and tied with strings on one side, having a small cloth on his head, often coloured red and yellow.  None enter into his apartments, except the eunuchs who have charge of his women.

[Footnote 405:  Futtipoor, certainly here meant, is now a place of small importance about 20 miles west from Agra.—­E.]

We remained in Fatepore till the 28th of September 1585, when Mr John Newbery took his journey towards Lahore, intending to go from thence through Persia to Aleppo or Constantinople, whichever he could get the readiest passage to; and he directed me to proceed to Bengal and Pegu, promising me, if it pleased God, to meet me at Bengal within two years with a ship from England[406].  I left William Leades the jeweller at Fatepore, in the service of the king Zelabdim Achebar, who gave him good entertainment, giving a house and five slaves, with a horse, and six S.S. in money daily.  I went from Agra to Satagam in Bengal, in company with 180 boats loaded with salt, opium, hinge, lead, carpets, and various other commodities, down the river Jemena, [Jumna]; the chief merchants being Moors.