[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) › 181.3 # Storia do Mogor 181.3 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 181.3 - **Language:** English ### [181.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181.3) Finally, he gave me my leave to go, adding that, seeing the viceroy would not send him an envoy, he meant to be the first and send one to him, and so let him see how much he desired to uphold peace with the Portuguese. Taking one of his officers by the hand, he said to me: 'This is the man I mean to send; he is the key of my treasure-house.' Then, laying hold of my hand also, he made the man over to me, and said he was doing him (the viceroy) much honour, for the man was his chief favourite. He sent me away, handing me two handkerchiefs of gold thread, and in the evening the envoy came to visit me. He set forth \[211\] his pretensions, which were that he should land in the isle with one thousand, or at the least five hundred, men as his guard, taking also seven horses (as he said) to show his rank. We hammered away for a long time at this subject, he beseeching me earnestly to secure this honourable treatment for him from the viceroy. But I displayed total indifference, saying it lay with the viceroy to concede to him or not what he asked; at the same time I would lay his requests before His Excellency. But horses were not necessary, the fortress being quite near, nor could the horses climb to it. - [Previous: 181.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181.2) - [Next: 181.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181.4) - [Up: 181](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.181.3) · Pramāṇa