Identifier: williamhsewardst01sewa (find matches)
Title: William H. Seward's travels around the world
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Seward, Olive Risley, 1844-1906
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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sks, as well as the triumphal arch, guarded by colored elephants.But we must not omit to record that, excepting the tomb, mosque,and other merely ornamental structures, the entire town of Fut-tehpore Sikra was built wholly of fine freestone; no basermaterial entered into the construction for the purpose of eitherfoundation, column, wall, roof, or dome. We historically know that this palace was built in 1571, andthat Akbar resided in it twelve years. We have no account of theperiod when its decay began, or how rapid has been its fall intoneglect and ruin. March 24:th.—If a man desires that there shall be a monumentto perpetuate his memory, he does wisely, in a worldly sense, ifhe builds it himself. Akbars tomb at Secundra shows that hehad this wisdom. He extended the Mogul Empire from the Industo the Bay of Bengal. Historians rather indicate his wealth byanecdote than describe his habits of life. They tell us that hisprivate hunting-stud, used also for war-purposes, consisted of five
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WEIGHING PEESENTS. 395 thousand elephants and ten thousand horses. We do not knowwhether he was the first to set the example which is said still toprevail among the princes of the East, of weighing his gratuities ingold against his own weight on festive occasions; it is, however,certain, that this monarch on one such occasion weighed a gratuityin gold against his own person, a second gratuity in silver, and athird in perfumes.

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