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gives them lesser charges by which they may advance themselves to the Chiefest in the Kingdome, if either an extraordinary Vertue or the Princes Favour call them thereto."
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RHINOCEROS FIGHT. From Rousselet's India
Mandelslo also describes the daily levees of the emperor, his appearance in the gallery at sunrise, when the nobility "salute him with their Patschach Salamet," at noon when he comes to see the beasts fight, and at sunset; but it does not appear that the German traveller was personally received at court.
Agra was a very densely inhabited city at this time, "of such extent and so populous, that were there a necessity, there might be rais'd out of it two hundred
