History of India . hs;the eldest, Salim, was little better and had shown fla-grant insubordination. And now the closest of his so AKBARS EEFOEMS friends, the inspirer of many of his best thoughts andacts, was to be sacrificed. Prince Salim, jealous ofAbu-l-Fazls influence and impatient of his censure,caused this upright and faithful servant of his fatherto be murdered on his return from the Deccan in was the last and crowning sorrow, and Akbar neverrecovered from the shock. The quarrels and intriguesof his worthless family hastened the end. At an ele-phant fight there was a scene of je
History of India . hs;the eldest, Salim, was little better and had shown fla-grant insubordination. And now the closest of his so AKBARS EEFOEMS friends, the inspirer of many of his best thoughts andacts, was to be sacrificed. Prince Salim, jealous ofAbu-l-Fazls influence and impatient of his censure,caused this upright and faithful servant of his fatherto be murdered on his return from the Deccan in was the last and crowning sorrow, and Akbar neverrecovered from the shock. The quarrels and intriguesof his worthless family hastened the end. At an ele-phant fight there was a scene of jealous disputing inhis presence; the weary king gave way to imgovemablefury, as he too often did in this stricken period of hisdecay, and was led away sick unto death. Eound thebed of the dying Akbar the intrigues for the successionwent on shamelessly, but at the last he received his onlysurviving son, Salim, and invested him with the swordof state. He died in October, 1605, the noblest kingthat ever ruled in AN IKDIAN SHIELD. CHAPTER III THE GEEAT MOGHULASB EUEOPEAlf TRAVELLEES 1605-1627 A. D. TOWAED the close of the sixteenth century thecurious began to listen to rumours, vague indeed,but impossible to be ignored, of a new and singularpower that had arisen in the East. Stories were toldof an emperor who had conquered the whole of Hin-dustan, and was ruling his vast dominions with ex-traordinary wisdom. Strange tales were bruited ofhis toleration. It was said that Christians were sureof a welcome at his court; that he had even taken aChristian to wife. Toleration was sufficiently out oftune with Tudor England, but in the barbarous Eastit possessed the charm of the wholly unexpected. Thename and character of the Grreat Moghul became the 51 62 THE GREAT MOGHUL common talk. In a few years Englishmen came to seehim face to face, as no Indian king had been seen byEuropeans since the days when Alexander met Poruson the plains of the Jihlam. Hitherto, India, except in parts of
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