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fines of Persia and India. There they had divers encounters 
with the Patanes, until they finally subdued all those who live 
in the country of Qhabul from the Indo inwards. Baburxa, 
Industan, and drove them into Bemgala.' After the death 
of Baburxa, the Patanes turned against his son, Emaumxa, 
and obliged him to betake himself, with little honour, to Qhabul. 
Seeing himself ousted, he went to ask help from the King of 
Persia, who gave him one of his Captains, a very brave soldier, 
with 12,000 men,* on condition that he would follow his 
King of the Patanes was also called David,’ like the 
Christian King from whom his predecessors had wrested 
Industan.* 
ower, their forces, lour, determination and experience. 
Though they have not openly declared against him, it is con- 
idered certain ey await an opportunity for rebelling 
and joining Amiqhan,’ the claimant to the Kingdoms of 
Cambaia. He has also a great enemy in his brother, the 
Prince of Qhabul. 
t was Cutubdican who raided the lands of Damao—with- 
out Equebar’s leave, as he affirmed many times on oath—in 
order, it seems. to disturb Equebar’s friendship and relations 
with us. At Equebar’s order he withdrew, for these fellows 
are so clever that, as long as their plan is not quite ripe, 
they -continue in their allegiance, seeing that they cannot 


1 Peruschi (p. 14) makes them retire to the « Islands of the Bay 
of Bengal.’’ 
* ** Iste [Rex Persie] erat Xa-Thamas, qui Homayoni XII mill. elec- 
torum | moilitum attribuit sub duce Beyran-Khan.’’ Cf. pr E é 
Imperio Magni Mogolis, Lugd. Batav., 1631, p. 159; but see ELxror’s 
Hist. of India, v, 219, 
8 Daud Shah. Cf. Krenn’s Or. Biogr. Dict. 
* On comparison of the Portuguese text of this paragraph with the 

