Akbar Besieged It For A Long Time, Surrounding It On All
Sides, And At Length Took It By Composition.
For it is said there bred
such innumerable quantities of small worms in the waters of the fort,
that the people swelled and burst, by which mortality the king was
forced to submit and surrender, the place being impregnable by any human
force.
The 3d we came to Candah, eleven c. a small aldea, the road
being stony and very troublesome. The 4th to Magergom, four c. a large
aldea, and by a very bad road. The 5th ten c. to Kergom, or Kargaw, a
large village and a steep road. The 6th thirteen c. to Bircool, a
small village. The 7th eight c. to Taxapore, or Tarrapoor, a small
town, within two coss of which we passed a fine river called Nervor,
[Nerbuddah,] which runs into the sea at Broach. On the bank of this
river is a pretty town with a good castle, immediately under which is
the ferry. About a coss lower down is an overfall where the water is not
above three feet deep, but a mile in breadth, by which camels usually
pass. The 8th five c. to Mandow, three coss of which the road goes up
a steep mountain, having no more than breadth for a coach.
[Footnote 237: This is an error of Finch. The Vindhaya mountains, which
run from Guzerat eastwards, are on the north of the Nerbuddah river;
whereas the mountain ridge in the text divides the valley of the
Nerbuddah from that of the Taptee, and joins the western Gauts near
Surat.
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