Storia do Mogor 9.1.3

9.1.3

' Wherefore I earnestly and prayerfully beg and entreat that Your Most Serene Highnesses will deign to order the publication of this little work, which is likely to be of the greatest use to travellers, missionaries, and merchants, etca. asking them to add a short and befitting preface, such as may appear best suited for it. If I could issue it at my own expense, right willingly would I do it ; but for such an expenditure my own resources, as well as the resources of my relations living in Venice, are too limited, therefore I have ventured to give this trouble to the Most Serene Senate. ' The original text, which I have always kept by me, I send to Your Most Serene Highnesses by the hands of the said Reverend Father Eusebius (which is a right good opportunity)—namely, the First, Second, and Third Parts already completed. At the same time I send the Fourth Part, written in French, which has always remained with me, and has never heretofore been sent to Europe. In it the life of the Mogul and various events of the government, besides other things omitted in Parts I. and II., are clearly narrated. I am now proceeding indefatigably with the Fifth Part, in which I examine in detail all and every event happening in these last days of King Aurangzeb's life, and I shall willingly give it to the Actor ' [who is referred to is not clear] ' if I am alive.