[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) › 151.3.8 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 151.3.8 Travels in India (Ball) 151.3.8 - **Language:** English ### [151.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.151.3.8) but seeing that the Council began to be annoyed, I thought that it was time to put an end to the affair. As soon as the Fiscal had given me his questions in French, I communicated them to M. Potre, the ablest counsel in Batavia, who told me that, not being employed by the Company, I was not obliged to reply to any of these articles, nevertheless, being desirous of putting an end to the affair, I went to the President’s house shortly after sunrise, and he came to receive me in his sleeping garment, “preferring,” he said, “to come to me in that condition rather than make me wait while he dressed.” The reply which I made to this compliment was “that since he wished me absolutely to tell him all that I knew of M. Constant, I would conceal nothing that had come to my knowledge, even were it to the disadvantage of the General himself and many members of the Council, and of you yourself who urge me to speak,” I added, after he had made his guard withdraw, and he and I remained alone. I told him, then, that “when leaving Surat to go to the diamond mine, M. Constant entrusted me with 44,000 rupees, asking me to expend it on diamonds, and especially on large stones, that my services would be well rewarded, and that as this sum belonged to the General he would be glad to have an opportunity of obliging him. Moreover, that the General himself had purchased from M. - [Previous: 151.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.151.3.7) - [Next: 151.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.151.3.9) - [Up: 151.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.151.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.151.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.151.3.8) · Pramāṇa