I Then Requested His Favour For An English Factory To Be
Established At Burhanpoor, Which Readily Granted, And Gave Immediate
Orders To The Buksh To Draw Up A Firmaun, License, For Their Coming
And Residence.
I also requested an order for carriages for conveying the
presents for the king his father, which he gave in charge to the cutwall
to see provided.
I then made him a present, which he took in good part.
After some other conference, he said, though I might not come up to
where he then sat, he would go to another place, where I might come to
him with less ceremony. But one part of the present I made him happened
to be a case of cordials, of which he tasted so freely by the way, that,
after waiting some time, I heard he had made himself drunk, and one of
his officers came to me with an excuse, desiring me to go home then, and
come some other time to see him. But that very night I was taken ill of
a fever.
The 27th of November, though, still sick, I was carried, from Burhanpoor
three coss to Raypora; the 28th, fifteen c. to Burgome, [Burgaw];
the 30th, seven c. December the 1st, ten c. to Bicangome; the 2d,
seven c. the 3d, five c. the 4th, eleven c. to Ekbarpoor, which stands
on a good river, [the Nerbudda] which runs into the sea near Buroach.
The 5th, I passed the river Nerbuddah. The 6th, I travelled eight c.
and lay in a wood, not far from the king's famous castle of Mandoa,
[Mundu] which stands on a steep hill, of great extent, the walls being
fourteen c. in circuit, this castle being of wonderous extent and great
beauty.
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