Storia do Mogor 122.5

122.5

We got to Bījāpur, as I said, and there we beheld the miracles that the padre had promised us. We were to take Bījāpur with the greatest ease, whereas it all but happened that Sharzah Khān broke all our heads. Therefore, finding, after we had retreated, that we were going into quarters, I began to long for a life among Christians; and I was disgusted at the conduct of the padre, who continued to live on in the army. I asked the rajah for leave to resign, as I wanted to return to my country, and I put forward as excuse that I wanted to get married. They never refuse anyone leave when it is with that object. The rajah asked his Brahman and the astrologers, with whom (as I have said) these princes are always well provided, if he should ever see me again. They replied that we should never meet again. He believed that I was doomed to die, but he reckoned badly, for while I got back to the Mogul country, he was left dead far from home, as I shall relate in its proper place (II. 115). On my leave-taking he gave me a set of robes, and something by way of present. Upon quitting the army I went into a village belonging to the Portuguese called Camba (Kambe), close to Galiani (Kalyan) and Beundi (Bhiwandi), in the country of Shiva Ji. In this village are made many things in wood — handsome chairs, sideboards, bedsteads, and different playthings.