The Walls Are Built With Bulwarks Or Towers Somewhat
Defensible, Having A Counterscarp Without, Some Fifteen Yards Broad.
Within Are Two Other Strong Walls With Gates.
[Footnote 259:
This of course is to be understood as referring back from
1611, when Finch was there. We have here omitted a long uninteresting
and confused account of many parts of India, which could only have
swelled our pages, without conveying any useful information. - E.]
There are four gales to the castle. One to the north, leading to a
rampart having many large cannon. Another westwards, leading to the
Bazar, called the Cichery gate, within which is the judgment-seat of
the casi, or chief judge in all matters of law; and beside this gate
are two or three murderers, or very large pieces of brass cannon, one
of which is fifteen feet long and three feet diameter in the bore. Over
against the judgment-seat of the casi, is the Cichery, or court of
rolls, where the grand vizier sits about three hours every morning,
through whose hands pass all matters respecting rents, grants, lands,
firmans, debts, &c. Beyond these two gates, you pass a third leading
into a fair street, with houses and munition along both sides; and at
the end of this street, being a quarter of a mile long, you come to the
third gate, which leads to the king's durbar. This gate is always
chained, all men alighting here except the king and his children. This
gate is called Akbar drowage; close within which many hundred dancing
girls and singers attend day and night, to be ever ready when the king
or any of his women please to send for them, to sing and dance in the
moholls, all of them having stipends from the king according to their
respective unworthy worth.
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