Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 2.3.8

2.3.8

'The Dabir, through whose medium the first communication is always made to the King, is my relation — my creature — and entirely in my confidence : you have only to advance with rapidity, and I promise so to order it, that you shall arrive at the gate of Bag-naguer without exciting a suspicion that you are any other than an ambassador from Chah-Jehan. When the King advances, according to custom, to receive the credentials, you may easily secure his person, then his whole family, and dispose of him in the manner you may deem fit, inasmuch as his palace of Bag-naguer where he usually lives is unwalled, and without a ditch or fortifications of any sort. Meanwhile I will defray the whole expense of the expedition, and engage to pay fifty thousand rupees daily during the time it may be in progress.'