that she had dictated the message, and that there were collected in the fortress several large and robust Tartar women, such as are employed in the seraglio, for the purpose of falling upon him with arms in their hands, as soon as he entered the fortress. Aureng-Zebe would not, therefore, venture within its walls; and though he repeatedly fixed the day for obeying his father’s summons, he as often deferred it to the morrow.
