[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 180.5 # Storia do Mogor 180.5 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 180.5 - **Language:** English ### [180.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.180.5) But if I took as a joke this treatment of me by the archbishop, it was not really such. Nor did the envoy look upon the manner in which he had been received as any joke; for wishing to make him out greater than he was, they placed him in danger of losing his head. They began to spread a rumour that he was not an envoy, but the very Sambha Ji himself. This story was so much accepted that men were already in search of him to slay him. Such is the power of fear when it enters into people who are otherwise of good sense! When I saw what their purpose was, I did my very best that they should not kill him, but only arrest him. I assured them he was not Sambha Ji, but a Mogul, as he really was. For if they had killed him, I, too, ran a very great risk of losing my life, and that for nothing else than trying to help His Excellency at the time the said envoy arrived. It pleased God that at last the viceroy should arrive, and he, too, was at first persuaded that the man was Sambha Ji in person. But after I had spoken with him, I assured him that even if he were really Sambha Ji in person, no violence could be done by him, for I would keep close to him when the letters were presented. Thus I conducted the envoy into the presence of the viceroy, who was already in a fright. - [Previous: 180.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.180.4) - [Next: 180.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.180.6) - [Up: 180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.180) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.180.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.180.5) · Pramāṇa