[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) › 21.2.4 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 21.2.4 Travels in India (Ball) 21.2.4 - **Language:** English ### [21.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.21.2.4) I remained eight days in Patna, during which time an occurrence happened which will show the reader that unnatural crime does not rest unpunished by the Muhammadans. A Mimbachi who commanded 1000 foot disgraced a young boy who was in his service ; . . . the boy, overwhelmed with grief, chose his time to avenge himself, and being one day out hunting with his master, and removed from the other attendants by about a quarter of a league, he came behind him and cut off his head with his sword. He then rode immediately to the town at full speed, crying aloud that he had slain his master for such a reason, and came at once to the house of the Governor, who placed him in prison. But he left it at the end of six months, and although all the relatives of the defunct did what they could to procure his execution, the Governor did not dare to condemn him, as he feared the people, who protested that the young man had acted rightly. I left Patna in a boat to descend to Dacca on the 29th of January (?), between 11 o’clock and noon. If the river had been strong, as it is after the rains, I should have embarked at Allahabad, or at the least at Benares. The same day I slept at Sera Beconcour, 15 coss. Five coss on this side of Beconcour you meet a river called Pompon sou, which comes from the south and flows into the Ganges. The 30th \[December\] to Sera D’Eriia (Dariapur ?), 17 coss. - [Previous: 21.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.21.2.3) - [Next: 21.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.21.2.5) - [Up: 21.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.21.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.21.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.21.2.4) · Pramāṇa