Storia do Mogor 354.1.6

354.1.6

Nearly five years have gone by since Dā,ūd Khān came to govern the Karnātik. The Dutch, always energetic in business, sent an envoy to him at once with a valuable present. They asked as a favour that he would cede to them a small town called Coniumeri (Conimere or Kunimedu), close to the sea and five leagues from Pondicherry on the north. The place was granted to them, and as the Dutch wanted settlers for it they invited people from Pondicherry and elsewhere to come there, offering them the fullest liberty and an absence of all interference. At the present time this town is growing with considerable hurt and damage to those who do not know how to make their subjects contented. I must not forget to tell what happened to me on the day of the Virgin's Feast — that is, on December 18, 1705. It was at this Monte Grande (Big Mount) at three o'clock in the afternoon. I was in the middle of entertaining several guests, who on that day never fail to appear, for a great crowd assembles there for this solemnity.