Storia do Mogor 354.6.4

354.6.4

You will have already seen (IV. 224, V. 34) the agreement made by the Dutch commissary Bernard Phoosen [151] with the French of Pondicherry when he was made a prisoner. The Dutch gentlemen who live in Batavia, and have control over Indian affairs, when they heard of the agreement that he (Phoosen) had made, deprived him of his office, as they did also to the other officials who accompanied him, and dismissed even the officials at the town of Negapatam who had signed the agreement. We come now to speak of King Aurangzeb. During the time of the rains the king cantoned his army near the river Quessina (Kishnã), which flows past the territory of the prince Aganguiri (Wãkinkerah). Not to be idle, he dispatched General Zu,lfiqãr Khãn to make war against a prince who was a vassal of the kingdom of Bíjãpur ; he also ordered the general Chinichiliscam (Chin Qalích Khãn) to march with his army and invest the principal fortress of another prince, equally a vassal of the Bíjãpur kingdom. The first of these princes offered thirty thousand, the other twenty thousand rupees in order that the king might allow them to live in peace. This offer was referred to his Majesty, who directed that these sums of money should be taken, and the cash should be kept as a present by the said generals [152]. Yet he instructed them to continue their best efforts to destroy these rebels. This is a habit of this king, although his orders are not carried out as he gives them.