Storia do Mogor 90.11

90.11

It was a striking thing, and I most particularly observed it, the difference between the people of India and the Persians. Putting them side by side, you could then recognise the difference both in attitude and features, in speech, in acts, in voice. Thus the Persians had the advantage over the Indians, and it was a fine sight to see the ambassador followed by his five hundred horsemen, almost all of the same height and appearance, large-limbed and handsome men, with huge moustaches, and riding excellent and well-equipped horses. Among them I knew one, a Muscovite, a slave of the Persian king, who came in the ambassador's train. Owing to the friendship we had had in Persia, he came several times to my house. Desirous of finding out something about the embassy, I asked him in a friendly way the favour of his telling me something about it; but, shrugging his shoulders and shutting his eyes, he gave me a sign that he could not speak.