Travels in India (Tavernier) 29.3

29.3

Some years before the death of the King, the Queen, as she had no children, adopted a young boy, upon whom she had bestowed all her affection, and whom she brought up, as I have already said, with the greatest care in the doctrines of the sect of Ali. On the death of the King she caused this adopted son to be declared King, and Sivaji, as he then possessed an army, continued the war, and for some time caused trouble to the regency of this Queen. But at last he made the first proposals for peace, and the treaty was concluded on the condition that he should retain all the country which he had taken, as a vassal of the King, who should receive half the revenues; and the young King, having been established on the throne by this peace, the Queen, his mother, undertook the pilgrimage to Mecca, and I was at Ispahan when she passed on her return. Returning now to the journey to Goa. When I left Surat for my second visit to Goa I embarked on a Dutch vessel called the “Maestricht,” which carried me to Vengurla, where I arrived on the 11th of January 1648.