Travels in the Mogul Empire, . umoured that lie intended to visit Laborand , in order to benefit his health by change ofair and avoid the approaching summer heat, from whicha relapse might be apprehended. Many intelligent persons,it is true, could scarcely persuade themselves that the Kingwould venture upon so long a journey while his fatherremained a prisoner in the citadel of Agra. Considerationsof policy, however, have yielded to those of health ; if in-deed this excursion may not rather be attributed to the JOURNEY TO KACHEMIRE 351 arts and influence of Ritacheiutrei
Travels in the Mogul Empire, . umoured that lie intended to visit Laborand , in order to benefit his health by change ofair and avoid the approaching summer heat, from whicha relapse might be apprehended. Many intelligent persons,it is true, could scarcely persuade themselves that the Kingwould venture upon so long a journey while his fatherremained a prisoner in the citadel of Agra. Considerationsof policy, however, have yielded to those of health ; if in-deed this excursion may not rather be attributed to the JOURNEY TO KACHEMIRE 351 arts and influence of Ritacheiutrei^Begum, who lias beenlong anxious to inhale a purer air than that of the Sera-gliti, and to appear in her turn amid ;i pompous and mag-nificent army, as her sister RrgiHti-tiaftr/i hail done duringthe reign of Ckah-Jekan. rJhe King left this city on the sixth of December, atthree oclock in the afternoon ; a day and hour which,according to the astrologers of Drfi/i, cannot fail to provepropitious to long journeys. Having reached Chah-limai;. Flu. iji—Knnsliarj Art Begum. his country villa, which is about two leagues distant fromthe capita^ lie remained there six whole days in order toafford time for the preparations required by an expeditionwhich was to last eighteen months. We hear to-day thatbe has set out with the intention of encamping mi thelAihor road, and that after two days he will pursue hisjourney without further delay. He is attended not only by the thirty-five thousand 85 % JOURNEY TO KACHEMIRE cavalry which at all times compose his body-guard, and byinfantry exceeding ten thousand in number, but likewiseby the heavy artillery and the light or stirrup-artillery, socalled because it is inseparable from the Kings person,which the large pieces of ordnance must occasion ally quitfor the high roads, in order that they may proceed withgreater facility. The heavy artillery consists of seventypieces, mostly of brass. Many of these cannon are soponderous that twenty yoke of
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