The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 1.4.7

1.4.7

Matters went on quietly for another month, which was passed for the most part in negotiations over the sum claimed by Roe from Zulfikar Khan in repayment of his exactions. After much haggling, the latter offered 17,000 mamudis in full discharge: but Roe, acting on the information supplied to him from Surat, rejected this as insufficient. Later on he was mortified to discover that the account sent up by the factors was incorrect, and that the amount offered in settlement was after all a reasonable one. No opportunity was lost, either, of pressing Asaf Khan for the signature of Roe's "articles from the King, which were of most consequence:" but the minister, while full of promises and artful excuses, seemed determined to delay matters indefinitely.