Storia do Mogor 265.29.6

265.29.6

There happened to be in Sao Thome a Portuguese called Manoel Macedo de Azevedo. This man dreamt several nights running that inside his house, in a godown (storehouse), was buried a treasure, close [256] to a pillar on which the house rested. To find out if the dream were true, he called in a sorcerer, to whom he set forth what he had dreamed. The sorcerer asked for three days to inquire and see if things were as he had dreamt. To find out by experiment whether the sorcerer knew how to divine what had been buried, the Portuguese placed some money and jewels in the earth at four places in his garden. When the three days had passed, the sorcerer came, and going into the garden, drew forth a small paper from his pocket, and took from it a certain black [powder] and anointed his eyes. Then the Portuguese led the sorcerer to the places where he had buried the things already referred to. The sorcerer halted, and described minutely what had been interred.