Storia do Mogor 281.28.2

281.28.2

About two years earlier [i.e., in 1696] an officer under Chilmancan (Sulaiman Khan), governor of Porto Novo and the neighbouring country, was passing through the territory of the English Company. He was stopped by a sergeant at an advanced post in the village of Tripapoulour (Tiruppappuliyur), the reason assigned being that he could not be allowed a passage without a permit from the governor of Cuddalore. At this hindrance the officer grew angry, and began to abuse the sergeant and the sentry. Finding they would not allow him to pass peacefully, he determined to force his way. Thereupon the sergeant placed all the obstacles in his way that he could, even going the length of threatening to fire if he was violent. The other man would not listen, and tried to carry his point. The sergeant was at length forced to fire. The officer was greatly astonished, for the shot killed an extremely fine horse that he was riding, valued by him at two thousand crowns. However, having a little recovered himself, he laid a complaint before Mr. Hatsell, governor of that fort (St. David), who, by means of a few trifling presents, moderated the wrath into which the sergeant's bold act had thrown the Mahomedan.