Storia do Mogor 119.6

119.6

As for the spells practised by the women to bring young men under their control, they are infinite. Of such a nature are they that any such youth becomes mad, nor is he given any respite to think of anything else. This subject I postpone to the Third Part of my History (III. 248-265). Let this serve as a warning to our Europeans who intend to travel in India, so that they may not allow their liberty to be taken from them, for afterwards they will weep over their unhappy, irremediable state. It happens often to one so bound by spells that after his lady-love has died he cannot endure the approach of any other woman, remaining ever overcome by sorrow for the defunct [102]. I have not much to say about the lands through which I passed. For they are not of great excellence or productiveness. They are, as I said, full of hills and rocks, and very difficult for fighting in. The habits of these people are barbarous, their features ugly, and complexion black; they go almost naked, having only a simple cloth, which at times is insufficient to hide their shame. Among the hills aforesaid are many tigers and other ferocious animals. It happened to me in this journey that an unknown dog attached itself to us, and served me as a guide in crossing streams. One night it was sleeping near me in these forests, when a tiger came and carried it off.