Storia do Mogor 281.27.2

281.27.2

I should ere this have started to fling myself at your feet and pray the grant of this favour. But it is necessary to prepare some rarities to be presented to the nawab, to whom we are bound to show our gratitude for his first letter of recommendation. I do not mean to take a single step in this matter without your advice. For this reason I beg the favour of your writing me two lines of reply, and pointing out to me what I ought to do. My design would be to travel as far as Big Mount by land dressed as a Pandaran (pandaram), and there await your directions for visiting the nawab. For you are acquainted with the case, and have already obtained so favourable and honourable a reception for our ambassador. It is thus certain that the glory of God will be a still stronger motive for procuring a missive as favourable to us as we could wish. Briefly, all is in your hands, and I await with impatience what it may please you to require of me in this affair. Meanwhile, I offer myself for anything that would be of service to you, et cetera. (From the Mission of Madura, February 6, 1702.) This, then, is the condition of things at Tanjor by the very statement of a father of the Society. In regard to this, let the reader notice that after the receipt of the letters from Da,ud Khan and the diwan the penalties inflicted upon the Christians ceased altogether.