Storia do Mogor 335.1.4

335.1.4

The Dutch narrative of the same events exists in the Hague Archives, in three long covering letters from Pieter de Vos, Directeur, and six others of the Surat Council — two to headquarters at Batavia, dated February 27 and March 9, 1704, and one to their High Mightinesses at Amsterdam, dated April 17, 1704. There are thirty-four enclosures — eleven letters from Pieter de Vos to commanders of ships off Sūrat, dated between September 22, 1703, and February, 1704; two to Simon Langendan of the Zuiddorp; one from Adrian de Palensteyn of the Beverwyk to P. de Vos; five ruqqa'hs (notes) from P. de Vos to I'tibar Khan, the governor, and four replies from I'tibar Khan; one ruqqa'h to Qāzī Muhammad Sa'id; one ruqqa'h from A. de Palensteyn to I'tibar Khān, and the reply; an 'arzdāsht, or dispatch, from I'tibar Khan to the Mogul Court, dated November 24, 1703 (the addressee is 'Inayatullah Khan, chief Dīwān); ruqqa'hs from de Vos and Palensteyn to the new governor, Najabat Khan, and three ruqqa'hs from Najabat Khan to them, giving cover to a Hasb-ul-hukm (order by wazīr in the emperor's name), dated 8 Shawwal, year 48, 1115 H. (February 13, 1704); and, finally, a bond by the native merchants of Surat, executed on March 19, 1704.