Remonstrantie 2.4

2.4

After passing the Fort, there is the Nakhas, a great market, where in the morning horses, camels, oxen, tents, cotton goods, and many other things are sold. Beyond it lie the houses of some great lords, such as Mirza Abdulla, son of Khan Azam (3000 horse); Aga Nur, provost of the King's army (3000 horse); Jahan Khan (2000 horse); Mirza Khurram son of Khan Azam (2000 horse); Mahabat Khan (8000 horse); Khan Alam (5000 horse); Raja Bet [?] Singh (3000 horse); the late Raja Man Singh (5000 horse); Raja Madho Singh (2000 horse). On the other side of the river is a city named Sikandra, well built and populated, but chiefly by banian merchants, for through it must pass all the merchandise brought from Porop, and Bengalen purop and the Bhutan mountains, namely, cotton goods from Bengal, raw silk from Patna, spikenard, borax, verdigris, ginger, fennel, and thousands of sorts of drugs, too numerous to detail in this place. Here the officers of Nur Jahan Begam, who built their sarai there, collect duties on all these goods before they can be shipped across the river; and also on innumerable kinds of grain, butter, and other provisions, which are produced in the Eastern provinces, and imported thence. Without these supplies this country could not be provided with food, and would almost die of hunger, so that this is a place of great traffic;