7.  The ‘kos’ varies much in value, but in most parts of the United Provinces it is reckoned as equal to two miles.  According to the N.W.P.  Gazetteer (p. 568), the nearest approximate value for the Agra kos is 1 3/4 mile.  Three kos would, therefore, be equal to about 5 1/4 miles.  Muin-ud-din died in A.D. 1236.  Sleeman, on I know not what authority, represents Akbar as resorting to Salim Chishti, Shaikh of Fathpur-Sikri, on the advice given by a vision accorded at Ajmer.  The Tabaqat-i-Akbari simply records that Akbar had visited the Shaikh, the ‘very holy old man’ of Sleeman, several times, and had obtained the promise of a son.  That promise was fulfilled by the birth of the princes Salim and Murad, who both saw the light at Fathpur-Sikri.  The pilgrimage of Akbar on foot to Ajmer, which began on Friday, Shaban (8th month) 12, A.H. 977, took place after the birth of Prince Salim, which occurred on the 18th of Rabi-ul-auwwal (3rd month) of the same Hijri year.  Akbar travelled at the rate of 7 or 8 kos a day, and spent about 25 days on the journey (E. & D. v. 333, 334).  If he had moved at the rate stated by Sleeman he would have been nearly three months on the road.  He reached Ajmer about the middle of February (N.S.).  Shaikh Salim Chishti died in A.D. 1572 (A.  H. 979) aged 96 lunar years.

8.  Sir Thomas Roe was sent out by James I, and arrived at Jahangir’s court in January, 1616.  He remained there till 1618, and secured for his countrymen the privilege of trading at Surat.  The best edition of his book is that by Mr. William Foster (Hakluyt Soc., 1899).

9.  Fathpur-Sikri is fully described and illustrated in the late Mr. E. W. Smith’s fine work in quarto entitled The Moghul Architecture of Fathpur-Sikri (4 Parts, Allahabad Govt.  Press, 1894-8), which supersedes all other writings on the subject.  The double name of the town means ‘Fathpur at Sikri’ according to a familiar Indian practice.  The name Fathpur (’City of Victory’) was bestowed in A.D. 1573 to commemorate the glorious campaign in Gujarat, but building on the site had been begun in 1569.  The historians usually call the town simply Fathpur, which name also is found on the coinage, from probably A.H. 977 (A.D. 1569-70).  The mint was not in regular working order until eight years later (A.H. 985).  Coins continued to be struck regularly at Fathpur until A.H. 989 (A.D. 1581-2).  Akbar abandoned his costly foundation a little later.  The only coin from the Fathpur mint of subsequent date is one of the first year of Shahjahan (Wright, Catalogue of Coins in Indian Museum, Mughal Emperors, 1908, p. xlvii).  But Rodgers believed in the genuineness of a zodiacal gold coin of Jahangir purporting to be struck at Fathpur (J.A.S.B., vol. lvii (1888), Part I, p. 26).