ABSTRACT
[438/I] After the events related in the last chapter, Prince Corrombo, thus favoured by fortune, seated himself on the paternal throne, and was crowned with the crown of the Mogol Empire, becoming Lord Absolute of it, with the title of Padcha, or Emperor as we should say. 1 Although freed from the opposition of his brothers and a nephew, he was not so unoccupied as to be able to at once fulfil the vow he had made to destroy the Town of Ugulim. Hence several years passed without this matter taking shape, and many more would have gone by, even all the years of the Emperor's life, if the Magnates who governed that City had done so circumspectly, by at once sending off their representative, in the name of the City, with a handsome adia or gift, together with their submission and good wishes, [438/2] on his succession to the Empire. But most of these gentlemen lived for their wealth alone, which among such folk always makes them act as the rustic acted in the house of his father-in-law. 2 Hence these great men supposed that the Emperor himself would be obliged to come and kiss their hands. They, therefore, paid no heed to the advice of certain Brethren and of even 316many Mogors and Pagans of experience, with whom they had affairs and dealings, and hence they let this necessary but ordinary courtesy pass away. To this act of disrespect were added certain complaints made to this Emperor that the Portuguese of Ugulim carried on commerce openly with the Portuguese of Dianga, who were in the service of his enemy the Magh King. 3 They had arranged that at Ugulim and in its districts the Magh should come in their Gelias to embark such articles as were lacking in their country, [429/I] and should land there those people whom they had taken as prisoners in their own land. These were purchased as slaves, not only by the foreign Portuguese but also by the natives of Ugulim, who sent them to different parts of India. 4 For these and other reasons the Emperor ordered his father-inlaw, the great Nababo Assofo Kan, to write to the Viceroy of India to send and punish the people of Ugulim. But the Viceroys were unable to use any coercion, since these people did not live in territory under their jurisdiction. 5 The Viceroy, on getting the letter, therefore, replied that as those Portuguese were men who had retired from his King's service and had gone to live in a foreign country he had no further concern with them.
