Storia do Mogor 338.15.4

338.15.4

After the above had happened an order was sent from court to the governor of Gulkandah to seize the Dutch factor and the rest of his staff. The order was executed at once. The Europeans who lived on the coasts of Choromandal and Gergelim (Gingerli), becoming apprehensive of war, began to make preparations. In the province of Bengal they did the same, withdrawing all the factors occupying various posts in the interior of the country [187]. In the year and month already named [September, 1704] there arrived in the town of San Thome from Goa a new chief captain, called Nuno Silvestro Frade, superseding the man who then ruled over the Portuguese quarter, one Matheus Carvalho da Silva, whose daughter he offered to marry. Already several days had passed without his visiting the Mahomedan governor at the same town, whose name was Mir 'Usmãn. I know not if it was carelessness, bad advice, or some suspicion. However, at once, without leave of the said governor, and without paying him a visit, he ordered the preparation of 100 candis of powder and the erection of walls for gudoms (godowns, or warehouses). The new captain marched about under an umbrella, with drums beating, giving himself the air of master of the country. Although aggrieved by these doings, showing they meant to ignore him, the Mahomedan governor kept his counsel, and noting how the heedless fellow had overpassed all limits, waited for some days an occasion to injure him.