Before The Fight Ended, Some 4000 Nayres Were Come In From
The Country, And Several Were Slain On Both Sides.
Nine or ten
Portuguese were driven ashore, and two or three of the chiefs of these
were immediately hung up by the heels, and being taken down after two
days, were thrown to be devoured by wild beasts.
On the 28th of January, we were told by a Pattemar, that the governor
was only our friend outwardly, wishing rather to have the Portuguese in
our room, as we did no good in the country, bringing only goods to sell,
whereas the Portuguese did good by making purchases. The 8th of February
we had letters from Surat; and on the 4th of March, the Zamorin wrote to
us, that if our ships came, he wished them to come to Paniany, and that
we need not be anxious for our money, as he would pay us, even if he
were forced to sell his rings.
SECTION VI.
Journal of Sir Thomas Roe, Ambassador from King James I, to Shah
Jehanguiro, Mogul Emperor of Hindoostan.[183]
INTRODUCTION.
There are two editions of this journal in our older Collections of
Voyages and Travels, but both exceeding defective and imperfect. The
first of these is in the Pilgrims of Purchas, which is said to have
been "Collected out of the Journal of Sir Thomas Roe, Knight, Lord
Ambassador from his Majesty of Great Britain, to the Great Mogul." It is
evidently to be considered as an abridgement made by Purchas, which,
indeed, he fully acknowledges in a postscript, in the following
terms:
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