[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 97.2.6 # Storia do Mogor 97.2.6 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 97.2.6 - **Language:** English ### [97.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.97.2.6) It remains to state that ahead of all this innumerable throng there always moved one day ahead, at the least, the Grand Master of the Royal Household, with other engineers, to choose an appropriate site where the royal tents should be unloaded. For this purpose is always chosen some pleasant spot. The camp is divided in such a way that on the arrival of the army there may be no confusion. In the first instance they fix the site of the royal enclosure, which, by measurements I subsequently took several times, occupies five hundred paces in circumference. Behind the royal quarters is another gateway, where the women live, a place much respected. After this is arranged they fix the position of the tents of the princes, the generals, and the nobles. This is so managed that between these tents and the royal tents there should be a wide space. The central space is encircled by scarlet cloths, having a height of three arm-lengths, and these serve as walls. Around these enclosing screens are posted the field-pieces; in front of them is a ditch, and behind them are palisades of wood made like network, which open and shut just like the ancient chairs of Venice. At the sides of the gateway, at a distance of one hundred and thirty paces, were two tents, holding each nine horses, most of them saddled. In front of the gateway is a large raised tent for the drummers and players of music. - [Previous: 97.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.97.2.5) - [Next: 97.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.97.2.7) - [Up: 97.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.97.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.97.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.97.2.6) · Pramāṇa