_Journey of Richard Steel and John Crowther, from Ajmeer in India, to Ispahan in Persia, in the Years_ 1615 _and_ 1616.[141] Having been detained at Agimere[142] from February, Mr Edwards received a letter on the 17th March, 1615, from the Great Mogul, of which he delivered a copy, together with his other letters, to Richard Steel, promising to procure the king's firmaun for our safety and furtherance, and to send it after us to Agra, where he directed us to wait for its reception. We went that night two coss to _Mandill_.[143]We had four servants, two horses, and a camel. The 18th we went twelve coss to _Bander Sandree_, [Bunder-Sanory,] a small _aldea_.[144] The 19th, ten coss to _Mosobade_, [Morabad.] The 20th to _Pipelo_, [Peped,] thirteen coss. The 21st to a town called _Chadfoole_, [Gohd?] seven coss. The 22d to _Lalscotte_, thirteen coss. The 23d to _Mogolserai_, twelve coss. The 24th to _Hindone_, fourteen coss. the 25th to _Bramobad_, twelve coss. The 26th to _Futtipoor_, twelve coss. This has been a fair city, which was built by Akbar, and contains a goodly palace belonging to the king. It is walled round in a handsome manner, and has many spacious gardens and sumptuous pleasure houses; but is now falling to ruin, and ranch ground within the walls is now sown with corn, the king having carried off much of the best stone to his new city of Agra. The 27th we went twelve coss to Agra. In the English house there, we found one Richard Barber, an apothecary, who came over with Sir Robert Shirley, and had been sent here by Mr Kerridge to take care of Nicholas Whithington. [Footnote 141: Purch. Pilgr. I. 519.--In the title of this article in the Pilgrims, Agimere, or Azmere, as it is there called, is said to have been the residence of the Great Mogul at the commencement of this journey, and Spahan, or Ispahan, the royal seat of the kings of Persia.--E.] [Footnote 142: This place, named Azmeer in the Pilgrims, is known in modern geography under the name of Ajmeer, or Agimere.--E.] [Footnote 143: A coss, or course, as it is uniformly denominated in the Pilgrims, is stated on the margin by Purchas, to be equal to a mile and a half, and in some places two English miles. As more precisely determined in modern geography, the Hindoostanee coss is equal to 1 4/7th English miles, and the Rajput coss to 2 1/6th miles nearly. It would overload this article to attempt critically following all the stations in the present journal, in which the names of places are often so corrupt as to be unintelligible. Such corrections of the text as can be ventured upon are included within brackets.--E.] [Footnote 144: This is a Spanish or Portuguese term, signifying country village.--E.]