[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) › 181.2 # Storia do Mogor 181.2 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 181.2 - **Language:** English ### [181.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181.2) The viceroy selected me for this business. On my side I recognised that I was a foreigner, so I took along with me one priest and one layman, both Portuguese, to bear testimony to my acts and words. I made declaration to the viceroy that they would never conduct me to Akbar, but to Sambha Jī instead. I questioned the viceroy as to what I should do in that case. He said to me that under no circumstances did he wish me to approach Sambha Jī. With this point determined on, I quitted Goa. Hardly had I arrived within Sambha Jī's country when they wanted to carry me to him and not to Akbar. Thereupon I declared that I would not go, that I would sooner lose my head than act against the orders I had received. Akbar learnt this, and dispatched Durga Dās, as representing his person during the negotiation with Sambha Jī. On these conditions I, too, attended, or else they would have carried me there by force. We reached the presence of Sambha Jī, who received me with great politeness. During the conversation he made bitter complaint of the viceroy's declaring war against him in spite of the King of Portugal's orders. The king had ordered him to maintain peace with his neighbours. Many other things against the viceroy did he say to me during this talk. It was on this occasion he told me that with his own sword he had decapitated his chief captains, owing to their disaffection. He showed me the sword. - [Previous: 181.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181.1) - [Next: 181.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181.3) - [Up: 181](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181.2) · Pramāṇa