Storia do Mogor 281.28.3

281.28.3

However, in 1698, two years after the event I have just recounted, Sulaiman Khan passed near to Cuddalore, and was visited by the second in the council [at Fort St. David], who came out to greet him and congratulated him on his safe return from Jinji. This [84] governor thanked him very politely, and told him that in a few days he would come back to pay the English gentlemen a visit as he went by. With that idea he withdrew to his government of Chelembron (Chidambaram), whence four days after his arrival he sent presents of sweetmeats to the governor and second-in-council at Cuddalore. These things they received graciously, in opposition to the ideas of the officer commanding the local garrison. He knew the Mahomedans, and warned the governor to put no trust in them ; for probably he would find these sweets difficult of digestion.