All Kept Silence For Some Time, And The King Told Us
By His Interpreter That We Were Welcome To His Dominions, That He
Had Been Informed We Were To Come By The Emperor His Father, And
That He Condoled The Hardships We Had Undergone At Sea.
He desired
us not to be under any concern at finding ourselves in a country so
distant from our own, for those dominions were ours, and he and the
Emperor his father would give us all the proofs we could desire of
the sincerest affection.
We returned him thanks for this promise of
his favour, and after a short conversation went away. Immediately
we were teazed by those who brought us the mules, and demanded to be
paid the hire of them; and had advice given us at the same time that
we should get a present ready for the King. The Chec Furt, who was
extremely ready to undertake any commission of this kind, would
needs direct us in the affair, and told us that our gifts ought to
be of greater value, because we had neglected making any such offer
at our first audience, contrary to the custom of that country. By
these pretences he obliged us to make a present to the value of
about twenty pounds, with which he seemed to be pleased, and told us
we had nothing to do but prepare to make our entry.
Chapter VI
The King refuses their present. The author's boldness. The present
is afterwards accepted.
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