[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) › 151.3.9 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 151.3.9 Travels in India (Ball) 151.3.9 - **Language:** English ### [151.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.151.3.9) Constant, when he visited Batavia, all the parcels I had sold him while he was the second in authority at the factory of Surat. They were all stones which I had had cut, their value being more than 40,000 écus. As for the pearls which the said M. Constant had bought for the General during the time he was at Hormuz, I did not exactly know the value, but I so far knew that they included two pear-shaped pearls which cost 170 tomans. That I had also received somewhat considerable sums to invest for M. Carles Renal, M. Caim, and some others, and that he himself could not have forgotten that when M. Constant left Batavia to go to be Commander in Persia, he entrusted to him 36,000 rupees, “asking him to give it to some of his friends to invest it in a parcel of diamonds. That the said M. Constant expected to find me at Surat in order to place this sum in my hands, but as I had left for Hormuz some days previously on an English vessel, he thought to find me there, where he would place the sum in my hands, supposing that during the same season I should return to India, and to the diamond mine. And in order to make you see,” I further said to the President, “how M. Constant was devoted to your interest, he purchased with the greater part of your money goods of Sironj and Burhanpur, and as soon as he arrived at Gombroon he was offered 30 per cent profit on them. - [Previous: 151.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.151.3.8) - [Next: 151.3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.151.3.10) - [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.151.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.151.3.9) · Pramāṇa