Storia do Mogor : or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian ; tr., with introduction and notes, by William Irvine.

Storia do Mogor, or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian ; tr., with introduction and notes, by William Irvine.

  • Manucci, Niccolò, 1639-approximately 1717.
Date:
1907-08
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Credit: Storia do Mogor, or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian ; tr., with introduction and notes, by William Irvine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOW WE WENT A THIRD TIME TO COURT When eight days had elapsed from the visit to the wazir, the ambassador was invited to a grand banquet in a beautiful palace that the King had recently completed. At its gate- way stood the large and handsome cannon which were captured at Ormuz. They were near a large reservoir of nice appear- ance and very pleasant. At this second feast [15] which the king gave him, the ambassador was treated with great hononrs in deference to his embassy, ‘Azamat-ud-daulah and a number of officers proceeding to the gates of the palace to meet him, and continuing in his suite until he arrived before the king. The latter caused his guest to be seated in the second place— that is to say, 'Azamat-ud-daulah came first, then the ambas- sador, then three of the king’s officers ; there being on the left hand five other persons, the greatest of the generals. The seat was larger than in Qazwln, with greater richness, and the room more beautiful. In it were sundry officials and captains, who stood. There was not much conversation. The king only asked the ambassador whether the climate of Persia suited him ; to which the ambassador replied that after all the climate of Persia had much resemblance to that of England, by reason of the frosts and snow that it had. I was standing behind the ambassador, and the king asked who I was. The ambassador answered that he looked upon me as his son. The king said to him that if he chose to make me over to him he would treat me verv well, and thus there would be a memorial of him left at the court. The ambassador said that if I were in reality his son he would make me over to his majesty ; but
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