Dericcan. Agra and Fatepore are two very great cities, either of them much
greater then London and very populous. [Sidenote: The like is reported of
the cities of China.] Betweene Agra and Fatepore are 12. miles, and all the
way is a market of victuals and other things, as full as though a man were
still in a towne, and so many people as if a man were in a market. They
haue many fine cartes, and many of them carued and gilded with gold, with
two wheeles which be drawen with two litle Buls about the bignesse of our
great dogs in England, and they will runne with any horse, and carie two or
three men in one of these cartes: they are couered with silke or very fine
cloth, and be vsed here as our Coches be in England. Hither is great resort
of marchants from Persia and out of India, and very much marchandise of
silke and cloth, and of precious stones, both Rubies, Diamants, and
Pearles. The king is apparelled in a white Cabie made like a shirt tied
with strings on the one side, and a litle cloth on his head coloured
oftentimes with red or yealow. None come into his house but his eunuchs
which keepe his women. Here in Fatepore we staied all three vntill the 28.
of September 1585. and then master Iohn Newberie tooke his iourney toward
the citie of Lahor, determining from thence to goe for Persia and then for
Aleppo or Constantinople, whether hee could get soonest passage vnto, and
directed me to goe for Bengala and for Pegu, and did promise me, if it
pleased God, to meete me in Bengala within two yeeres with a shippe out of
England. [Sidenote: Wil. Leades serued the king of Cambaia.] I left William
Leades the ieweller in seruice with the king Zelabdim Echebar in Fatepore,
who did entertaine him very well, and gaue him an house and fiue slaues, an
horse, and euery day sixe S. S. in money. I went from Agra to Satagam in
Bengala, in the companie of one hundred and fourescore boates laden with
Salt, Opium, Hinge, Lead, Carpets, and diuers other commodities, downe the
riuer Iemena. The chiefe marchants are Moores and Gentiles. [Sidenote: The
superstitious ceremonies of the Bramanes.] In these countries they haue
many strange ceremonies. The Bramanes which are their priests, come to the