Storia do Mogor 98.2

98.2

This is why I do not write the whole of the king's journey to Kashmir, although in its proper place I shall touch on some matters in Kashmir of which I have information. I leave it to the reader's curiosity to read what Monsieur Bernier has written about that journey, although, if I am to speak the truth, he puts many things of his own into his Mogul history; and I could, through his chronology of the times, make it clear that he writes many things which did not occur — nor could they have occurred — in the way that he relates them. Nor could he have been too well informed, for he did not live more than eight years at the Mogul court ; it is so very large that there are an infinity of things to observe. Nor could he so observe, for he had no entrance to the court. As it seems to me, he relied for what he said upon the common people ; and if there is any good thing in his books, it is due to the information given him by Pere Buzeo, also to what I gave him, having then no intention of writing anything. If I write now, I do so at the demand of my friends, chiefly Monsieur Francois Martin, Director-General, and Monsieur Deslandes.