Storia do Mogor 15.2.1

15.2.1

I can find no reference to Manucci in Tavernier ; and Mr. W. Foster informs me that there is no mention of him in the travels of Jean de Thevenot, who in 1666-67 travelled through Gujarat and Gulkhandah, visiting Surat and Machhlipatnam. Manucci mentions Tavernier once in passing in rather disparaging terms ; but it does not seem that the two men ever met. He speaks of 'Monsu Tavirnier's' presence at Dihli in 1665 (Part V., f. 75), and his recourse to a French doctor (not named, perhaps François de la Palisse), to help him in the sale of his jewels to Aurangzeb, who was far from being so liberal a buyer as Shahjahan. Tavernier holds out a promise to get the doctor a new wife in France, whereupon the man tries to poison his Portuguese consort. In 1666 her sister, the renegade wife of 'Ali Mardan Khan, rescues her, and removes her to Lahor, but afterwards poisons her there herself.