ABSTRACT
The Great Mogul had determined to send an ambassador to Portugal, 2 who was to take with him a present for His Majesty worth, it was said, two hundred thousand crusados, and another for the Pope. But certain reasons of state, combined with the advice of his councillors, led him to abandon his intention. He resolved, however, to send an embassy to the Viceroy of India, choosing as his representative a great Captain from Cambaya, named Mocarebecam [Muqarrab Khan], 3 whose advice he took in all important matters. This powerful lord had an income of fifty thousand pardaos, besides a hundred and fifty thousand which he received from the King. His Majesly asked Father Ieronimo Xauier, Superior of the Mission, to allow Father Manoel Pinheiro, who resided at Lahor, to accompany the Mission, to which he readily assented; and the Father set forth with the ambassador on the I 3th September, 4 1607.
