[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) › 156.2.1 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 156.2.1 Travels in India (Ball) 156.2.1 - **Language:** English ### [156.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.2.1) Four or five days before the fleet left, the Avocat Fiscal came to tell me that he had the General’s command to arrest me if I was still unwilling to place in his hands the rekenings which he had already so often asked me for. Having replied that I had nothing to give him, he said, "be so good then as to follow me;" this I did willingly. He conducted me to a beautiful place on one of the bastions, called “sapphire,” where there is a pleasant house devoted to the amusement of the officers, and where the majority of the respectable people of the town came to visit me, and sent me presents of the best wines. On the following day two Councillors came to see me, and told me that they knew not to what to attribute the objection which I had to place in their hands that which they asked for, especially as they, with good grace, offered me an order for payment on the Company in Holland. I replied that it was not with a sufficiently good grace, and that when I saw the order I should make it my business to get back the rekenings. Two or three days more passed, during which the vessels commenced to set sail, this caused these gentlemen, both those of the Council of India and those of the town, to come to see me, to the number of eight or ten. - [Previous: 156.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.10) - [Next: 156.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.2.2) - [Up: 156.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.2.1) · Pramāṇa