There is time for sightseeing, and for that most favoured of Mughal pastimes, hunting. Jahangir is inordinately fond of hunting, and often takes the ladies of the zenana along with him. Noor Jahan is a particularly good markswoman and Jahangir is very proud when he describes how ‘she shot two tigers with one shot each and knocked over two others with four shots’. The admiring Jahangir underlines that ‘until now such shooting was never seen’ and, much pleased by his wife’s cool-headed skill, gifts her a pair of diamond bracelets worth 100,000 rupees and pours a tray full of gold coins over her
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No wonder we have only a few tigers today. Not that the white man helped the cause. He took what the kings of the past started and finished off the "game".
