Storia do Mogor 100.11

100.11

Here I made the acquaintance of an Englishman named Thomas Plata (? Pratt), a courteous man, who had from Mir Jumlah five hundred rupees a month. He was master of the riverside, and employed in building boats and making ammunition for river fighting. This Englishman carried me off to his house, and I received from him many favours; I shall have something to say [63] about him after the death of Mir Jumlah (II. 75), through something that then happened to him. After some days I embarked once more, accompanied by the friars, traversing the great river of Dhakah, on my way to Hughli. Having discovered that I had little time to spare, and that there was a shorter and safer route to Hughli, we therefore quitted the main stream and passed by a way between forests, which are called the Forests of Sunderi (Sundarbans).