Storia do Mogor 238.2.3

238.2.3

Having set forth all this grandeur and power of the Moguls, I will, with the reader's permission, assert from what I have seen and tested, that to sweep it entirely away and occupy the whole empire nothing is required beyond a corps of thirty thousand trusty European soldiers, led by competent commanders, who would thereby easily acquire the glory of great conquerers. To add to the reader's information, I will also state the length and breadth of this empire. The roads are not direct, owing to the forests and mountains and the interposition of territories belonging to the different rajahs and zamindars, who allow no travellers to pass through, out of the fear they have of the Mogul. Nor are the roads there secure, for you would be robbed if you went by them. I will indicate the open and frequented roads, beginning with the east and ending on the west.