The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger portion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at
Agra.
You, my sons, will give her a fair share of the
Agra treasure.
When we had done so we resolved to engage the men, if we could, to join with those we had, for the pursuing our business; but, on a sudden, they having received not their wages, but their share of the money, as we afterwards learned, not one of them was to be found; we inquired much about them, and at length were told that they were all gone together by land to
Agra, the great city of the Mogul's residence, to proceed from thence to Surat, and then go by sea to the Gulf of Persia.
Then I came to Agra, and would have turned back to Chitor to recover the letter.
'But at Agra, walking in the streets, a man cried a debt against me, and approaching with many witnesses, would hale me to the courts then and there.
From
Agra, by Etawah and the broad waters by Allahabad "
It is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of the Sholto murder and the
Agra treasure, he has been more nearly correct than the official force."