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⁴ Scott, *History of the Dekkan*, Vol. II, p. 28. But Mahabut Khan was not the only delinquent in this respect. William Minchin wrote about the Sidi Admiral who had no money to pay his men: ‘The Siddy minds nothing but his dancing women whom he hath continually dancing before him.” Factory Records, Surat, Vol. 90, Part I, fol. 29, (the date of the letter is 25 July 1678).