section_path: Foreign relations/Relations with other contemporary kingdoms
section_name: Relations with other contemporary kingdoms
paragraph_text: Relations with other contemporary kingdoms
  
  Vincent Arthur Smith has observed that the merchant Mildenhall was employed in 1600 to bear a letter from Queen Elizabeth to Akbar requesting liberty to trade in his dominions on terms as good as those enjoyed by the Portuguese.
  
  Akbar was also visited by the French explorer Pierre Malherbe.