Storia do Mogor 265.18.3

265.18.3

I will say something more about this city of Goa, which, as it seems to me, is dominated by some disquieting planet, or by demons who throw it into confusion, filling it with murder, disunion, and oppression, as I have tested by experience. Seeing that what I have said of the lay inhabitants is not the whole truth, I must add that it is the same thing in the convents of men dedicated to the religious life. In them there is also discord, as I have myself witnessed. There are opposing factions in the same convent, one virulent against the other, carrying [218] cutlasses and fire-arms hidden beneath their gowns. Walking through the city, should they encounter the other side, there is a fight. In the end they threw the prior out of a window, and he died from the injuries. This case happened at the convent of the Augustinians.