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EUROPEANS UNDER JAHANGIR'S REIGN 273 medans prisoners, had at the same time taken possession of their money and goods. It gave me much displeasure. Mukarrab Khan, the governor of that harbour, was presented with a robe of honour, besides an elephant and a horse, and was commanded to put a stop to such outrages. ' A year later, in 1614, the ninth year of his reign, Jahangir records with satisfaction the fact that the Portuguese and English (Angriz) had come into conflict at Surat, with the result that the Portuguese were wholly discomfited. He writes: [Elliot, vol. vi, p. 340.] ' Happy tidings came of the defeat of the Portuguese (Warzi), who had made every preparation for the capture of the port of Surat. An ac- tion took place between them and the English (Angrl- zari}, who had sought refuge in that port. Most of their vessels were burnt by the English, and not being able to stand the contest, they took to flight and sent a message to Mukarrab Khan, the governor of the ports of Gujarat, suing for peace and representing that they had come with peaceful views, not to fight, and that the English had been the first to quarrel/ Of less historic importance, but hardly less interest- ing, is the fact gravely recorded by Jahangir regarding the first European carriage in India, in 1616, the elev- enth year of his reign. It was the year when Sir Thomas Roe came as English ambassador to the Mo- ghul court. It is interesting to compare the ambassa- dor's description of the occasion (reproduced on the next page) with the paragraph in Jahangir 's own