Agra Historical & Descriptive With An Account Of Akbar And His Court And Of The Modern City Of Agra

Truly these Franks are a great nation, and I purpose sending my blessings to my son, the King of Spain, so said the great Tartar conqueror, Timur Beg, or Tamerlane, when, in 1403, he was visited at his far-famed metropolis, the then mistress of Asia, Samarkand, by the good Christian knight, Don Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, the plenipotentiary of his sovereign, the King of Castille, who has left an account of the great Chaughattai’s court in teh city, and of his feasts and displays their held, far more glowing than that painted by Shar-ud-din, the eminent biographer of Timur.