Storia do Mogor 88.1.5

88.1.5

The ambassadors stayed four months in Dihli, at the house of Lutfula can (Lutfullah Khan), assigned by the king as their dwelling. They were all men of dirty and rustic habits, of green and black complexion, tall, with scanty beards and diminutive eyes, active horsemen and dextrous archers, their bows and arrows being large and powerful. This people fight their enemies most vigorously with arrows, but if they meet with resistance they take to flight at a great pace, though continuing to shoot their arrows, as I have [27] seen in several battles. While they were at Dihli the envoy's people sold different articles of merchandise brought by them, such as horses, camels, musk, beaver (castor), and skins. I bought several things from them. They soon prayed the king to give them their leave to depart, for they did not find themselves comfortable in that climate, through the great heats that had come on. They were accustomed to cold ; thus several of them died. But the chief cause of mortality was their avarice, and in order not to disburse what the king allowed them for expenses, they consumed the flesh of sick horses and camels.