Travels in India (Tavernier) 52.5

52.5

Dara Shah arrived in Sind, intending to pass into Persia, where Shah Abbas II awaited him with a magnificent outfit, being resolved to aid him with men and money. But this Prince being unwilling to entrust himself to the sea, and fearing that its uncertainty would submit him to some new reverse of fortune, believed that by going by land he would secure greater safety to himself and his women and children. However, he deceived himself, for when passing through the country of the Pathans, on the road to Kandahar, he was again shamefully betrayed by one of the chieftains of the country named Juin Khan, who had been an officer of the King his father, and who, having been condemned to death for his crimes, by the mouth of the King, and sentenced to be thrown under the feet of an elephant, obtained forgiveness through the intercession of Dara Shah, to whom, therefore, he owed his life.