[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) › 340.4 # Storia do Mogor 340.4 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 340.4 - **Language:** English ### [340.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.340.4) As Dã,ud Khãn was suffering from sciatic pains, he sent a man to beg the governor of this place (Madras) to do him the favour of lending him the services of his medical man to treat him. In reply the governor sent his doctor with all the articles requisite. \[246a\] At this time \[when Dã,úd Khãn was laid up\] the Lord Bishop went to pay him a visit, and gave him a present of some torches and candles of white wax. He explained that he was a poor 'darvesh,' and had no wealth with which to find presents. He was received most courteously. On the next day Dã,úd Khãn went to see him, and said good-bye. He was received in the way I have already described (IV. 245a), and once more he gave the Bishop three hundred and fifty rupees. He drank a considerable quantity of wine, and the principal Portuguese inhabitants, to the number of four, were present. One day before his departure I went to take my leave. We then had a long conversation, and he expressed his approval of the liqueurs and cordials that on several occasions I had forwarded. I now presented some more. He gave me a present of a costly set of robes, and of three hundred and fifty rupees. He added that it was only a small sum, and must be made over to the little children in my house; and he would not ask me to accompany him, so as to spare me the fatigue of the march, I being a man already getting on in years. He begged me to continue my friendship as before, and he would never forget me. During the conversation a dispatch-rider arrived from the court with a number of letters. Among them was one from Zu,lfiqãr Khãn, of whom I have already spoken (III. 13, IV. 2, 15). By it he entrusted him with some business, and also in it directed him to make over to me seven hundred rupees as a present. Dã,ud Khãn executed this second commission on the spot. That noble (Zu,lfiqãr Khãn) had been condescending enough to write to me several times to ask for some lotions and medicines, by means of which his wife, who suffered from her eyes, had been cured. Dã,úd Khãn started, and took with him the doctor. Before they left he gave him one hundred and fifty gold pagodas, which comes to 520 rupees in silver, and a valuable set of robes. After he had reached his camp he detained the doctor for a month, allowing him thirteen rupees a day, and food sufficient for twenty persons. He had now recovered from his complaint sufficiently to be able to walk and mount his horse without any detriment. At this time it happened that in the city of Madras an English lady \[246\] of position and wealth fell mortally ill. To obtain help for this lady the governor wrote a letter to Dã,úd Khãn that the doctor was urgently required. Dã,úd Khãn sent him back \[with a present of a thousand rupees and more robes\], and thanked the governor. One day before the arrival of the doctor the said lady had died. Her name was Madam Pitt, the widow of John Pitt, the Consul of the New English Company, who died in the port of Machlipatam three years ago. \[Endorsement\] Account of the visit of Dã,ud Khãn in the year 1706. STATEMENT OF THE ARMY OF THE KING SHAH 'ALAM, NOW CALLED MUHAMMAD PRINCE SULTAN MU'IZZ-UD-DIN, ELDEST SON OF THE KING: CAVALRY AND SPEARMEN THE REAL ARMY. SHAH 'ALAM, King of the whole (Farrukhsiyar). MUHAMMAD A'ZAM SHÃH, aged sixty-one years. - [Previous: 340.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.340.3.8) - [Next: 341](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.341) - [Up: 340](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.340) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.340.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.340.4) · Pramāṇa