Mucrob Khan Came To Surat Accompanied By A Jesuit Named Padre Peneiro,
Who Had Offered Him 40,000 Dollars To Send Me Prisoner To Damaun, As I
Was Afterwards Certainly Informed By Hassen Ally And Ally Pommory.
On
his arrival I went to visit him, giving him presents, besides those
formerly given to his brother; and
For a time, as already mentioned, I
had many outward shows of kindness from him, till such time as I
demanded my money, when he told me flatly he would not give me 20
mahmudies the vara, as had been agreed, but would rather give me
back my cloth. I dissembled my sense of this unjust procedure as well as
I could, entreating leave to proceed to Agra to wait upon the king;
telling him I meant to leave William Finch as chief in my place, who
would either receive the money or the goods, as he might please to
conclude. Upon this he gave me his licence and a letter to the king,
promising me an escort of forty horsemen; which promise he did not
perform. After I got this licence, Father Peneiro put into his head that
he ought not to allow me to go, as I would complain against him to the
king; thus plotting to overthrow my intended journey. Mucrob Khan could
not prevent my going, because I was sent by a king; but endeavoured to
prevail on my interpreter and coachman to poison or murder me by the
way; which invention was devised by the Jesuit.
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