[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) › 156.1.9 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 156.1.9 Travels in India (Ball) 156.1.9 - **Language:** English ### [156.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.9) But at length I accepted, fearing that by refusing it they might detain me for another year without my having power to leave in any direction, a friend having told me in confidence that the design of the General and his Council was to so manage it, that, whether from Batavia or from Europe, I should not return to India any more, and that by this means they hoped to prevent the commanders or chiefs of the factories, which they have both in India and Persia, from making further use of me to invest for them in diamonds the money of which the Company was defrauded. It was this which led me to accept the passage, for which I thanked the General and his Council. Subsequently the General told me to select the particular vessel I preferred to go by, and that when I informed him he would order a cabin to be prepared for my own special convenience, but if I would take his advice I should go on the Vice-Admiral, because of the good company which would be on board, and that I should find old friends whom I had known in Persia and in the territories of the Great Mogul. I tendered him my thanks for having placed me in such good company ; but after he had made this obliging offer he added that it was absolutely necessary that I should place all the rekenings which I had bought, in the hands of the Avocat Fiscal, and that without having done so I should not be permitted to leave Batavia. - [Previous: 156.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.8) - [Next: 156.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.10) - [Up: 156.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.9) · Pramāṇa