Travels in India (Tavernier) 157.1.2

157.1.2

To accomplish it I made a present to the General’s daughter, in order that she might ask the Major and the Avocat Fiscal not to appear to see this young man when he was leaving. We were still three days in the roads before setting sail. On the first day the principal merchant of the fort, who kept a record of all the goods which had been embarked, both for Holland and other places, came to the vessel according to custom to examine the bill of lading, and have it read over by the captain of the vessel and the merchants who came with him, whom he made sign it. This bill of lading was placed in the same box where they shut up all the account books and records of all that had passed in the factories of India, both concerning trade and as regards civil and criminal justice, and the covering over all the goods was then sealed.