[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) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 147.6 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 147.6 Travels in India (Ball) 147.6 - **Language:** English ### [147.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.147.6) The Chief of the Vengurla factory seized his opportunity then to revenge himself on the Jesuit fathers, and having learnt that there were two of them going to the mines to buy 400,000 pardos worth of diamonds, he gave orders to two men who purchased some for him, that as soon as the fathers had completed their purchase they should give notice of it to the master of the customs at Bicholim. Bicholim is a large town on the frontier, which separates the territories of the King of Bijapur from those of the Portuguese, and there is no other road but by this place, because one cannot elsewhere pass the river which forms the island of Salsette where the town of Goa is built. The Jesuit fathers, believing that the officer of customs knew nothing of the purchase which they had made, went into the boat to cross the water, and they had no sooner entered it, than they were searched, and all the diamonds found on them were confiscated. - [Previous: 147.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.147.5) - [Next: 147.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.147.7) - [Up: 147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.147) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.147.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.147.6) · Pramāṇa