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68 his house by force of arms, for Padre Pineiro offered the governor forty thousand "ryals of eight" if he would deliver up Hawkins to the Portuguese. At last, on February 1, 1608-9, he received a pass for his journey to Agra. At Burhanpur he saw the viceroy of the Deccan, who received him well, talked to him in Turkish (a language with which Hawkins was familiar) for three hours, of course accepted a present, and invested him with "two Clokes, one of fine Woolen and another of Cloth of Gold; giving mee his most kind letter of favour to the King, which avayled much. This done, he imbraced me, and so we departed." A guard of Pathans hardly sufficed to save the traveller from several attempts at assassination, or what he believed to be such (for one cannot but suspect that the gallant captain made the most of his perils), but at length, "after much labour, toyle, and many dangers," he arrived at Agra on April 16, 1609.

GOLD COINS OF JAHANGIR.

At this time Akbar had been dead nearly four years, and a very different personage sat on the throne. The Emperor Salim, entitled Jahangir, or "Grasper of the World," formed a striking contrast to his father, against whom he had more than once openly rebelled. Born