Storia do Mogor 199.5

199.5

I offer up many thanks to God that at length He granted me means to deliver myself; and I assure the reader that few Europeans could live there with the advantages and honours I was able to achieve. Nor let him be led away by the hope that, resorting thither, he would be able to improve himself in any degree. For few indeed are they who return thence bettered, and many are those who have been made worse.