Storia do Mogor 138.5

138.5

Travelling is a teacher of many things, and he who wanders without learning anything can only be said to have the head of an ass. The horse given me by Manoel Ribeiro at Parenda had only a few days before arrived from Dihli, a journey of forty-six days, and it was thus much out of condition. It happened one day that my servant opened his bag, in which he had a nutmeg, and by carelessness he left this nut on the ground, and the horse ate it. Next day, on mounting, I noticed that he was much more lively in his gait. I did not know the cause of this freshness; then I remembered he had eaten a nut the night before, and I concluded that must be the cause. Nor was I wrong, for, giving him each day one nut, he became ever more ready and clever.