Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 2.16.5

2.16.5

I should, I fear, only tire my readers were I to enter upon a long narration of my own adventures with Messieurs the Koullys, or robbers ; relating how I moved their compassion, and by what means I preserved the little money which was about my person. I made a grand display of my professional skill ; and my two servants, who experienced the same terror as myself, declared I was the most eminent physician in the world, and that Dara's soldiers had used me extremely ill, depriving me of everything valuable. It was fortunate for me that we succeeded in creating in these people an interest in my favour ; for after detaining me seven or eight days, they attached a bullock to my carriage, and conducted me within view of the minarets of Amed-Abad. In this city I met with an Omrah who was proceeding to Dehli, and I travelled under his protection. On the road our eyes were too often offended with the sight of dead men, elephants, oxen, horses, and camels; the wrecks of poor Dara's army.