True Tales of Travel and Adventure, Valour and Virtue (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... AT THE COURT OF THE GREAT MOGUL. IN the year A.d. 1600, the first charter was granted to the East India Company by Queen Elizabeth. The trade of England with India continuing to increase, King James the First resolved to send an ambassador, or special envoy, to the Emperor of Hindustan, commonly called the Great Mogul. The object of the embassy was to obtain a treaty of peace and amity between the King of Great Britain and his Indian Majesty; to secure for English subjects freedom of trade in all ports of India; and in various ways to advance the commercial interests of England, by such protection and privileges as could be granted by the mighty Ruler of the East. The Mogul of this period was Jehan Guire, the tenth in descent from Timour-Leng (the lame prince), better known as Tamerlane, the renowned conqueror, Timour married the only daughter of those nations or tribes of Great Tartary called Moguls. Hence the name borne by the conquerors and rulers of Hindustan, or Indostan, the country of the Hindus, or Indians. By successive conquests these rulers now bore sway over all the regions from China to the Caspian, and from the mountains to the sea. Candahar, Cashmere, Cabul, the Punjab, Agra, Delhi, Gwalior, Gujerat, Bengal, these are but a few of the principalities and powers mentioned as being under the dominion of Shah Selim Jehan Guire, the Great Mogul, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The rulers in different regions were not all of the Mogul race; some were Persians, Arabs, or Turks, while other territories were left under their native Indian rajahs or kings, who were tributaries of the Mohammedan Suzerain, the Great Mogul. Sir Thomas Roe was the ambassador sent by James the First, having with him many curious and valuable articles from the...