Storia do Mogor 148.2

148.2

He left with his retinue, and finding that neither by promises nor by threats could I be made to follow him [151], he ordered me to be carried off by force. Thus I travelled with him for three days as far as Little Gujarat, crossing the river of Lahor and the river Chinab. He acted thus not only from his desire to keep me, but also because his wife so willed it. She went the length of unveiling before me her daughter's face (a most unusual thing among them), and said to me that, if I would not go for her sake, at the least I might for her daughter's, whom I had brought back to health when she was very ill. I had come thus far, but never forsook the project I intended to carry out ; for he who serves by compulsion can never be satisfied. Thus, the marches being at night on account of the heat, I turned back, without saying a word to anyone except an Englishman, whom I told I was going to the town of Little Gujarat to buy some medicines, and if Muhammad Amin Khan should ask him about me, he was to give that answer.