ABSTRACT
[340/I] To return to the thread of our history, you must know, [340/2] curious Reader, that after reaching the City of Pa tana [34I/I] I obtained information as to the road I should follow to the great Court at Agra. I learnt that I should have to travel for twenty-five stages 1 by land and cross half the Kingdom of Industan. So I got rid of my arrangements for aquatic travel and set to work to procure those required for the terrestrial journey I was to undertake. When I wished to hire horses they advised me that it would be more convenient and serve me better to take a cart. These are covered like our coaches, and not only protect one from the inclemencies of the weather but also from bodily concussions, as most of those roads are level and so suited to these instruments of the Yritonian 2 inventor. To these, instead of swift horses, they attach in these parts halting, slow-paced oxen.
