[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) › 211.1.1 # Storia do Mogor 211.1.1 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 211.1.1 - **Language:** English ### [211.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.211.1.1) N. Manucci is wrong in the name of the envoy; it should be Bacherus, and not Bald. The only Balde or Baldaeus known is Philip Baldaeus, a Dutch chaplain, who died in 1672, the year his book appeared, being a description of the island of Ceylon, of Malabar, and Choromandel. There is abundant evidence of the mission of Johannes Bacherus in 1688. Let us take first the English records. Porto Novo reports to Fort St. George on November 27, 1687 (Factory Records, No. 30), that the Dutch are keeping high festival for four days on account of a qaul (written order) freeing them from customs duty for four years, and thenceforth to pay only half duties throughout the Gulkandah kingdom. We must remember that Gulkandah had just been absorbed into the Mogul empire. Fort St. George rejoins, December 9, 1687, that it understands not the festival, as the Dutch were already free of customs in Gulkandah; there must be something else behind. On January 17, 1688 (letter to Surat), the English say they heard that the Mogul had ordered the Dutch to send up an ambassador, and was demanding sums of money for the confirmation of their former privileges. Again, on September 13, 1688, they write that the Dutch Commissary-General (? Van Reede) at Pulicat (close to Madras) was preparing a great ' Pishkas ' for the Mogul, said to be worth 40,000 pagodas — elephants, horses, palkis, plate, jewels, etc. ' Heer John Vakeerus ' (Bacherus), the second in council, was to deliver it. - [Previous: 210.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.210.3.8) - [Next: 211.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.211.1.2) - [Up: 211.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.211.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.211.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.211.1.1) · Pramāṇa