Storia do Mogor 335.3.2

335.3.2

By this trick the quick-witted viceroy learnt what the man had been, but allowed no sign of it to escape him; and after a longish conversation on different subjects, he told him that he was in need of a loan of 50,000 seraphim (? ashrafi), which he would return on the following day. The young man forwarded the money at once. Next day the viceroy sent for the good old man, and made him hide in the room where the money was placed. He then sent for the young gentleman, and, taking his hand, led him into that room, saying to him: 'Behold your father, to whom you are under great obligations; make up your mind to give him all that is necessary to travel home again. Indeed, he must be allowed to carry away the 50,000 seraphim, and by that payment I shall have acquitted myself towards you in regard to my debt.' He added some severe words of reproof, and sent him away. Thus the old man went back to Portugal well provided. This story shows how the wisdom of men in power may remedy many things, and how much greater is the success obtained by such means than by violence. There was in the Mogul country an officer named Fatulacan (Fathullah Khan), an Uzbak or Tartar by race. He started from Hindustan at the head of a large body of troops, convoying a large sum in gold and silver coin for the disbursements of the royal army. When they arrived at the town of Aurangabad, the insolent Mogul soldiers began to rob many of the shops [158] and beat men in different quarters of the town.