474' M. Hammer's Memoir on the Diplomatic Relations 



" sador, having soon afterwards an audience of the Grand Wazir, observed 

 " that it would be difficult to arrive in the same time with Zulfikar in India, 

 " because he himself (the Indian envoy) was proceeding by the way of 

 •' Yemen, whose Imam was on friendly terms with tiie Persians, but not 

 " with the Turks ; and in this manner he contrived to decline Zulfikar's 

 " company. The answer given was, tiiat he might go along with him as 

 «' far as Hejaz. The ambassador was obliged to assent, and they proceeded 

 " together on their way to that city. Some years after, the son of Fakir- 

 " ud-dln was sent out ambassador to India. He was a man quite fit for this 

 " charge, capable of relating the events of his journey, and the conversa- 

 " tions which he might hold with the Indian monarchs : all this sliall be 

 " related, if it please God, in its proper place, provided God grants me 

 " the grace to finish this history." 



Such are the words of the Turkish historian : and it is much to be re- 

 gretted that he was prevented from continuing his history to the time when 

 he might have inserted a relation of Manzada's Indian journey. 



The answers to the letters sent by ZulHkar, came three years afterwards 

 by the Indian ambassador Kaim Beg: of the arrival and departure of whom 

 the printed history of Naima contains the following account : 



" Kaim Beg, the Indian ambassador, and bearer of the answer to the 

 " letters sent by the Mutafarrika Zulfikar Beg, arrived, on the 17th Rejeb, 

 «< 1066 (Friday 11th May, A.D. l65G), at Scutari, where he was lodged 

 " in the house of a wealthy merchant in the place of Falconers, and sup- 

 " plied from the imperial kitchen by the inspector and the head cook, sent 

 " expressly for this purpose. The next day he passed over in a galley to 

 •' Constantinople, and was met by the ChaushbashI and some Chaushes, who 

 " conducted him to the palace of the late Siawush Pasha, which had been 

 " assigned to him for a residence. On the 21st (15th of May) he was in- 

 " vited to attend the imperial divan, and treated according to established 

 " custom. After the Wazlrs had attended at the Sultan's audience, the 

 " ambassador was introduced to deliver his letters at the footstool of the 

 " imperial throne, and his presents* were carried by two hundred and fifty 

 " porters."* 



* Besides many others, he presented a jewelled sword and a jewel-studded dagger, the 

 diamonds of both of which shone in a great blaze. The mistakes which had happened at the 

 nomination of Zulfikar, have been related above, among the events of the year 1063. 



