[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 281.4.2 # Storia do Mogor 281.4.2 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 281.4.2 - **Language:** English ### [281.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.4.2) A Mahomedan I knew had, to oblige a friend, become his surety for some amount of money or other. A little time afterwards the friend died before he had liquidated the debt for which the Mahomedan had stood surety. He to whom the money was due lost no time in taking measures to constrain the guarantor into paying. The latter was informed of the trick that was to be played upon him, and to cover himself he interviewed some of the honest gentlemen of whom I spoke above. In return for a consideration of two thousand five hundred rupees, which he disbursed to them, they were to fabricate for him documents and evidence, by virtue of which he would be entitled to make a still larger counter-claim than the sum his opponent demanded. The suit came before the king, and there the documents of the Mahomedan surety were inspected and accepted as so truly executed that the poor creditor, to whom a great deal of money was owing, was not only defrauded of the money he had demanded, but was further condemned to make over to the Mahomedan the total amount of these false bonds. I might bring up an infinite number of similar cases, for such are newly cropping up every day in Hindustan. But to continue would probably end in wearying my readers. However, I will tell one adventure, which not only I, but several other Europeans witnessed ; and it will serve as confirmation of the disloyalty of these people and their evil conduct. - [Previous: 281.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.4.1) - [Next: 281.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.4.3) - [Up: 281.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.4.2) · Pramāṇa