Storia do Mogor 65.45.1

65.45.1

He therefore resolved to send his son, Sultan Bang, to the King of Arracao (Arakan) [269], a heathen, otherwise known as Mogo (Magh), beseeching him most earnestly to afford aid in his distress ; if he did not agree to that, would he, at the least, consent to receive him and his men within his territory until the season came for a voyage to Persia or to Mouca (? Makkah, Meccah) ? When fortune should again be kind to him, he would hereafter recompense him for this favour. The King of Arakan received the prince Sultan Bang with much courtesy and kindness, and after a few days sent him back to his father with a number of boats called jalias, which are small galleys commanded by Portuguese subjects of the said King of Arakan, inhabitants of Chatigao (Chatganw) on the frontier of that kingdom, where its boundary runs with that of the Moguls. Prince Shah Shuja' was highly satisfied at acquiring so bold a friend, one so powerful as not to be afraid of Aurangzeb, the reason of which we will recount hereafter (I. 270). Finding by this time that he was no longer able to resist Mir Jumlah, and that on every side he was hemmed in, he resolved to quit Bengal, he and his family, with all his treasures.