Storia do Mogor 334.7

334.7

At the end of fifteen days they gave me leave to go, in an honourable manner, conferring on me a sarapa (set of robes) and enough money to pay the cost of my journey. These gentlemen gave me a letter for the governor of this place (Madras) conveying many thanks for having sent me, and they told him other details of my journey. Verbally they directed me to say to the said governor that he must give back three villages, those that Zu,lfiqar Khan had presented to the Honorable Company of England in the days of his being governor; since then fresh orders had been received to take possession of them again. I arrived at Madras and carried out the orders that had been given to me. But the governor, Thomas Pitt, paid no heed to the message; for, having much experience, he knows perfectly the manners and customs of this kind of people. They seek continually fresh methods of capturing some money. His reply to them was that he was the owner of the three villages, and that he meant to keep them, so much so that to this day he remains in possession. On this reply there came certain menaces, but in the end the thing blew over without further disturbance.