Storia do Mogor 65.44.7

65.44.7

After three days [268] we were presented to Aurangzeb. He was very anxious for us to enter his service, recognising the fidelity and valour with which we had served Dara, and that among his own people he could not meet with such fidelity and stubbornness. Therefore, he now fixed four rupees a day for [each] European, and for me five. My companions accepted his service, but I did not wish to do so, through the antipathy I had to him, and the point of honour I cherished of not serving under the murderer of my master. I communicated to the king my non-acceptance of employment. He caused me to be sent for once more, and asked why I did not accept service with him ; did I want higher pay than he offered ? I replied to him that I would willingly enter into his employ, but I longed to return to my native land, years having elapsed in absence from it ; and thus he allowed me to leave.