Storia do Mogor 211.4.1

211.4.1

Maybe astonishment will be expressed at all the details I give of this court, but just to afford some satisfaction to my readers, I will tell a little story showing how I came to a knowledge of these things. In the palace was a female servant called Dil-jo, who acted as valet-de-chambre to Shah 'Alam. This girl fell ill, and no one could diagnose her complaint, nor its source. She was quite young, but suffered from insomnia, and from time to time frightful things overtook her, even to biting her own body. After some remedies had been administered which did her no good, I was instructed to treat her. I fathomed at once the origin of the disease, and I said to the prince that I could not cure her, but I would instruct them as to a remedy they might give her, by means of which I hoped that her health would be re-established.