[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 105.4 # Storia do Mogor 105.4 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 105.4 - **Language:** English ### [105.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.105.4) Mir Jumlah and his soldiers reached the principal city of the Assam kingdom, called Guergao (Kharganw), and fighting bravely, ejected the rajah. The latter retired into the mountains, and Mir Jumlah, after occupying the place, caused the tombs to be destroyed, which contained great treasures, it being the Assam custom to bury with the defunct the wealth that he possessed. It is the practice of these people that when the master of the house dies they bury with him all his wives, concubines, and servants — that is, the tailors, washermen, barbers, and others who serve in the deceased's house, setting them all on fire after binding their feet. The city of \[74\] Kharganw is very large and fine, inhabited by rich merchants — that is, according to the stories told me in Dhakah when I passed through it (II. 62). The natives of those lands take four wives. Here the women are very lovely, and they do all the work of the house, the men being indolent, except in war-time, when they all go forth to fight. When I passed through Dhakah I saw huge boats which Mir Jumlah was sending loaded with the booty taken at Kharganw and other places. These boats had extremely high poops, carved with ugly, fear-inspiring faces. Their armament was of small pieces, swivel-guns (trilhoens) and petrechos of bronze, of which the muzzles whence the ball issues were fashioned into shapes of animals — tigers, lions, dogs, elephants, and crocodiles. - [Previous: 105.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.105.3) - [Next: 105.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.105.5) - [Up: 105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.105) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.105.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.105.4) · Pramāṇa