History of India . though the Company received himwith twelve coaches at Tower Wharf, and voted him£1,500 for his services, he returned a poor man, and wasthankful to accept another mission from the king,though it involved a second exile, this time to Constan-tinople. In those days it was an exception for a manin his position to refuse, as unworthy of his high office,the many opportunities for making money in India; butThomas Roe was fashioned in a refined and exaltedideal of conduct, and his high principles and noble char-acter stand clearly revealed in his shall obtain no more fa
History of India . though the Company received himwith twelve coaches at Tower Wharf, and voted him£1,500 for his services, he returned a poor man, and wasthankful to accept another mission from the king,though it involved a second exile, this time to Constan-tinople. In those days it was an exception for a manin his position to refuse, as unworthy of his high office,the many opportunities for making money in India; butThomas Roe was fashioned in a refined and exaltedideal of conduct, and his high principles and noble char-acter stand clearly revealed in his shall obtain no more familiar glimpses of the jo- OTHEE EUEOPEAN TKAVELLEES 79 cund court of Jahangir after Sir Thomas Roes departurein 1618. The ambassadors chaplain, Edward Terry, inhis Voyage to the East Indies, adds little; nor ismuch to be learnt about the court, or even the countryand government, from the travels of Pietro deUa Valle,who visited Surat, Ahmadabad, and Cambay in 1623,and then turned south to Goa. He gives an amusing. TOMB OP iruB jahans fatheb at aosa. accoimt of the sumptuous mode of life among the Eng-lish merchants of Sm-at, but he has little to teU of theMoghul empire, and he did not see the capital. But ofthe famous empress, the Seal of Womankind (Muhr-i-Msa), Nut Jahan—or, as she was then called, NurMahal—he has this notice: He has one Wife, or Queen,whom he esteems and favours above all other Women;and his whole Empire is governed at this day by her 80 THE GREAT MOGHUL counsel. She was bom in India, but of Persian Race,and was formerly wife in India to another Persian Cap-tain, who served the Moghul. After her husbandsdeath, however, a fair opportunity being offered, as itfalls out many times to some handsome young Widows,I know not how, Shah Selim had notice of her and fellin love with her. At length he determined to receiveher for his lawful Wife above aU the rest, and as suchshe commands and governs at this day in the KingsHaram with supream authority; having cunni
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