Storia do Mogor 122.7

122.7

Sultan Akbar, Fourth Son of Aurangzeb. ready to slay me. But guessing that I had been already warned, and was coming at them resolved to fight to the death, they were in fear and allowed me to pass without hindrance. I was subsequently informed that he who laid this plot for me was the fidalgo to whom I had praised the Mellos. Thus, fearing that he would lose no occasion of executing his evil intent, I left for Goa, and there I arrived in the month of May, one thousand six hundred and sixty-six (1666). Of the place itself I shall have much to say presently, but the reader must permit me first to state briefly [no] something about my own stay there. I did not obtain there what I sought, for I found myself in a place where treachery is great and prevalent, where there is little fear of God and no concern for strangers. Not that I can complain myself of ill-treatment, for the viceroy desired to honour me with the command of a war-galley. But since I had many necessary expenses, and I was not rich enough to take upon myself the payment of the soldiers and sailors from my own pocket, I declined. My advice to the viceroy was that he should take great care not to let the Mogul become master of Bijapur; for on finding an opportunity, he would use all his strength to take Goa, as was his usual practice.