[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) › 23.1.5 # The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 23.1.5 The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe (Foster) 23.1.5 - **Language:** English ### [23.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.23.1.5) Concerning Persia, the Turke hath only yet made a Brauado, and performed little; the Passages are stoppd, and the King, drawing his Armies into his borders to defende himselfe and finding no great woorke, tooke occasion to take in by force a reuolted Nation to the East of Babilon. The People are Called Coords ; how by the Ancientes, or the true Geographicall situation of their Cuntry, I am yet ignorant in. Sir Robert Shirly, by an ill Passadge to Goa, lost the oportunitye of the fleete for Lisbon, and is stayed there another yeare ; so that negotiation will not so speedily be aduanced as I feared. Wee shall haue breath and tyme to woork vpon yt, according as it shalbe requisite in the judgment of your Honors in England, or at least of the Merchantes, whom it first regardeth. - [Previous: 23.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.23.1.4) - [Next: 23.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.23.1.6) - [Up: 23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.23.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.23.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.23.1.5) · Pramāṇa