Travels in India (Tavernier) 21.4.2

21.4.2

The following day I went to Murshidābād to know if the Receiver who had refused to pay me had received another order from the Nawāb. For I have above said that I immediately wrote to Shāistā Khān to complain of his action and to know for what reason he did not wish my bill of exchange to be paid. The Director of the Dutch factories added a letter to mine, and pointed out to the Nawāb that I was too well known to him — having, formerly at Ahmadābād, at the army of the Deccan, and in other places, had many transactions with him — not to deserve favourable treatment; that he ought to remember that I, being the only person who often brought to India the choicest rarities of Europe, it was not the way to make me wish to return as he had invited me, if I should leave discontented; besides which, owing to the credit which I enjoyed, I should be easily able to dissuade those who intended to come to India with rare objects, by making them fear the same treatment as I had received.