Storia do Mogor 13.1.6

13.1.6

Apparently tiring of his position, Manucci resigned (II. 108, 109), and made his way via Kaliyani to Bassain, twenty-eight miles north of Bombay; he was there during the Lent of 1667, and narrowly escaped the Inquisition (III. 230). He reached Goa in May, 1667, and after a stay of fifteen months (May 1667 to August 1668) he left it disguised as a Carmelite, and returned to Agrah and Dihli (II. 130). At the latter place he attached himself to Kirat Singh, obtaining from him a horse and rupees 5 a day. After a year's time Kirat Singh was ordered to Kabul, and Manucci resolved to move to Lahor (end of 1670 or early in 1671), and start practice there as a physician. He practised as such for about six or seven years, and, having realized a small competence, decided on removing into territory governed by Europeans. This must have been in 1676, as he was at Daman, on the west coast, in that year (II. 137, III. 198), and during 1677 (III. 264, 265) he made his home at Bandora, on Salsette Island, nine miles north of Bombay fort. Having lost his money in a bad speculation, Manucci was obliged to try his fortunes once more at the Mogul court. He returned to Dihli, where, through a court chamberlain, he was called in to attend one of Shah 'Alam's wives, and, having cured her of a gathering in the ear, the lady interested herself in his affairs and procured his appointment by that prince as one of his physicians.