[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) › 338.4.2 # Storia do Mogor 338.4.2 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 338.4.2 - **Language:** English ### [338.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.4.2) On the contrary, he is your mortal enemy, and will destroy you. For to that end alone can that counsel serve ; because there are very stringent orders at the gates (as I know) about the person of your reverence and your not leaving. I hold it to be impossible for you to get away without capture. Having seized you, they will without fail send you on board the ship about to set sail for England. Such a disaster would be a great disgrace both for you and your religion. They will catch your reverence in disguise taking flight for Pondicherry in time of war, and that after you have lived here so many years and been so well treated by all the English, especially by the government. Certainly it will not fail to appear a very abominable thing, an act unworthy of the personal character and conduct of your reverence. Not even among your own people will you be able to save your reputation ; even when they learn that this attempted flight was not due to treason, they will not refrain from declaring that your reverence behaved very imprudently in attempting such an absurdity. If you fancy that you will be highly honoured for your zeal in obeying, you are much mistaken, for there is no one who is ignorant of the fact that obedience does not include such impossibilities, and among us such an act would never be done. In confidence I warn your reverence in these words ; but you must decide as you please. As to this move, I do not advise you to make it. - [Previous: 338.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.4.1) - [Next: 338.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.4.3) - [Up: 338.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.4.2) · Pramāṇa