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274 APPENDIX Memoirs, where lie refers to the equipage from Eu- rope. ' On the afternoon of the first of Zu-1-ka'da, corre- sponding with twenty-first of Aban [1025 A. H., Novem- ber 10, 1616 A. D.], I departed in sound health from Ajmir in a European carriage drawn by four horses, and I ordered several nobles to make up carriages similar to it * and to attend upon me with them. About sunset I reached my camp in the village Deo Rana, a distance of nearly two leagues.' 2 EUROPEANS AT HUGLI IN SHAH JAHAN's TIME, 1628-1659 A.D. The contemporary account given by Khafi Khan of the European settlement at the Port of Hugli, near Calcutta, is interesting as illustrating in certain re- spects the native attitude toward the foreign settlers. [Elliot, vol. vii, p. 211.] l The Firingis had formed a 1 A little above he tells us that on the departure of Baba Khurram, he had given him " a carriage of the Firing! English fashion, that he might sit and ride in it." These are the only remote allusions made throughout the work to the embassy of Sir Thomas Roe, whose residence in Jahangir's camp lasted from January 10, 1616, to January 21, 1618. 2 Sir Thomas Roe describes Jahangir's departure from Ajmir as follows : ' Thus richly accoutred, the King went into the coach, which waited for him under the care of his new English servant, who was dressed as gaudily as any player, and more so, and had trained four horses for the draught, which were trapped and harnessed all in gold. This was the first coach he had ever been in, made in imitation of that sent from England, and so like it that I knew the difference only by the cover, which was of gold velvet of Persia. Next followed the English coach, newly covered and richly trimmed, which he had given to his favourite queen, Nur Mahal, who sat in the inside. After this came a coach made after the fashion of the country, which I thought seemed out of countenance, in which were his younger sons. This was followed by about twenty spare royal elephants, all for the king's own use."