He and his family went all the way on foot at the rate of
three 'kos', or four miles, a day, a distance of about three hundred
and fifty miles. 'Kanats', or cloth walls, were raised on each side
of the road, carpets spread over it, and high towers of burnt bricks
erected at every stage, to mark the places where he rested. On
reaching the shrine he made a supplication to the saint, who at night
appeared to him in his sleep, and recommended him to go and entreat
the intercession of a very holy old man, who lived a secluded life
upon the top of the little range of hills at Sikri. He went
accordingly, and was assured by the old man, then ninety-six years of
age, that the Empress Jodh Bai, the daughter of a Hindoo prince,
would be delivered of a son, who would live to a good old age. She
was then pregnant, and remained in the vicinity of the old man's
hermitage till her confinement, which took place 31st of August,
1569. The infant was called after the hermit, Mirza Salim, and became
in time Emperor of Hindostan, under the name of Jahangir.[7] It was
to this Emperor Jahangir that Sir Thomas Roe, the ambassador, was
sent from the English Court.
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