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Updated: May 3, 2025
Akbhar, the imperial Mogul, who on his birthday caused himself to be weighed in golden scales three times, first against gold pieces, then against silver, and lastly against fine perfumes, who scattered among his courtiers showers of gold and silver nuts, for which even his gravest ministers were not too dignified to scramble, even Akbhar must not detain us.
In the pursuit of these, our path should wind, had we time to take the longest, among deserts and lands of darkness, phoenixes and griffins and sphinxes, human monsters, and more monstrous gods, the courts of Akbhar and Aurengzebe, palaces of the Mogul and the Kathayan Khan, pigmies, monkey-gods, mummies, Fakeers, dancing-girls, tattooed warriors, Thugs, cannibals, Fetishes, human sacrifices, and the Evil Eye, Chinese politeness, Bedouin honor, Bechuana simplicity, the plague, the amok, the bearding of lions, the graves of hero-travellers, flowers in the desert, and the universal tenderness of women.
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