[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) › 334.6 # Storia do Mogor 334.6 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 334.6 - **Language:** English ### [334.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.334.6) In the year 1703 I received a letter from this Da,ud Khan, and another from the diwan Chaadetulacan (Sa'adatullah Khan), and several others from other lords. By these letters they entreated me to visit them, especially as they had much need of me. I began my journey on February 27 of the same year (1703), and found the said general at the town of Carpa (Cuddapah, Kayapa), distant one hundred and twenty leagues from Madras. I was very well received by these gentlemen according to their customs. They asked me to be so good as to treat a captain named Mohamed Jafar (Muhammad Ja'far), a Persian by race. I would not undertake the case, for he was already moribund; in fact, he died a few days afterwards. During the short time I was with their army I got no time to rest, for everybody pestered me, as their way is, for medicines, even those who had no need of them. They would say as a reason, 'I have no appetite; give me some medicine to make me eat like an elephant, or like a camel, or at any rate like a horse.' And all these brute-like demands simply to have strength to slake their sensuality! For their minds are filled with, and they have no other diversion than, the desire to steal all they can, for no other object than the accomplishment of their carnal desires. - [Previous: 334.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.334.5) - [Next: 334.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.334.7) - [Up: 334](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.334) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.334.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.334.6) · Pramāṇa