[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy) › [The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe (Foster)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster) › 14.2.4 # The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 14.2.4 The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe (Foster) 14.2.4 - **Language:** English ### [14.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.14.2.4) I tould him the dangers of stormes and varietye of weather would proue yt. He answered : if six were putt into a shipp one might liue, and though it Came leane he would fatt yt. I replyed I was Confident it Could not bee in soe long a voyadge, but that for his Maiesties satisfaction I would write to aduise of his request. So he asked what was it then I demanded. I sayd : that hee would bee pleased to signe certaine reasonable Conditions which I had Conceiued for the Confirmation of the leauge and for the securitye of our Nation and their quiett trade, for that they had beene often wronged and Could not Continue on such termes : which I forbeare to Complayne off, hoping by faire means to procure amendment. At this woord Asaph Chan offered to pull my interpreter, but I held him, suffering him only to wincke and make vnprofitable signes. The King hereatt grew suddenly into Choler, pressing to know who had wronged vs, with such show of fury that I was loath to follow yt ; and speaking in broken Spanish to my interpreter to answere that with what was past, I would not trouble his Maiestie but would seeke Justice of his sonne the Prince, of whose fauour I doubted not, the King, not attending my interpreter but hearing his sonnes name, conceiued I had accused him, saying miofilio, miofilio, and Called for him ; who came in great feare, humbling himselfe. Asaph Chan trembled, and all of them were amazd. - [Previous: 14.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.14.2.3) - [Next: 14.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.14.2.5) - [Up: 14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.14.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.14.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.14.2.4) · Pramāṇa