Storia do Mogor 281.7.2

281.7.2

[21] [A long story of what is supposed to have lately happened in Tartary. It treats of the adventures of two youths, one of whom becomes a wazir, and shares with his friend as agreed on. The friend supplants him, but the first man recovers his position by a subterfuge. Omitted as being neither historical nor Indian.] [22] In my first three parts I have not spoken of the loss of San Thome, having left that to the authors who have written on it before me. However, as the time and the place lead me to it, it will not be inappropriate to make a few remarks about that siege. The place was taken in the month of March, 1662, and here is the cause of the King of Gulkandah's making himself master of the town. When he sent Raja Culy (? Riza Qull) to be governor of Karnatik, that official had need of some pieces of artillery for the campaign he was carrying on against the Hindu princes. He begged the inhabitants of San Thome to lend him two cannon, but they refused, letting him know that they declined to recognise him in any way. The King of Portugal, their sovereign, had given them no orders to lend him cannon.