Pleasing the Emperor (Mughal Emperor Jahangir)
"Mr Edwardes presented the Kinge [the Mughal Emperor Jahangir] a mastife, and speakinge of the dog's courage, the Kinge cawsed a younge leoparde to be brought to make tryall, which the dogge soe pinchtt, thatt fewer howres after the leoparde dyed.
Synce, the Kinge of Persia, with a presentt, sent heather haulfe a dozen dogges— the Kinges cawsed boares to be brought to fight with them, puttinge two or three dogges to a boare, yet none of them seased; and rememberinge his owne dogge, sentt for him, who presently fastened on the boare, so disgraced the Persian doggs, wherewith the Kinge was exceedingly pleased."
Source: Letter from Kerridge, East India Company President at Surat (1612), as quoted in The Sahibs (1948), edited by Hilton Brown. London: William Hodge & Co., 158–159.
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