Storia do Mogor 345.10

345.10

[Here follows an account of the doings of the French fleet, beginning with July 11, 1704. It is omitted, it being substantially the same as the version in Part IV., fols. 223-226. There are a few additional statements which I have introduced into Part IV. within square brackets. I resume at folio 34, which seems an amplification of the narrative in Part IV., fol. 224, referring to the Dutch commissary.] [34] The said commissary [Phoosen] was received in Pondicherry with great civility; after fifteen days they released him, and made him a present of all his plate, and some cases of merchandise which he claimed as his private property. When he left he was escorted by fifty soldiers, the captain over whom called Monsieur Deligondes. They conducted the commissary as far as Cuddalore, and on reaching it he opened one of his boxes and took out from it a casket of valuable jewels, and wished to give the officer a valuable diamond ring, but the Frenchman declined to take it, though thanking him for his kind offer. Thus the commissary quitted Cuddalore [35] and went to Negapatam to take charge of his government, and remained ever afterwards on good terms with the French of Pondicherry. On February 20, 1705, the four French vessels set sail for France. The Phénix went to Bengal under the command of Monsieur Bono (Bouynot), and the vessel called Marchand des Indes, being old, was sold to an Armenian merchant named Mallegujas.