Storia do Mogor 265.29.8

265.29.8

The work was suspended, the labourers were turned out, and the door locked. Then the master went to greet the governor at his gate, and conducted him to the garden. While they were in conversation the house fell down, owing to the removal of the foundations of the pillar. Thereby the man saw how good God had been to him, and the net which the Devil had tried to spread for him. Repenting himself, he abandoned his attempt. All the city heard of the case, and of the unholy rites the man had performed. He was compelled to appear at Goa to defend himself before the Inquisition, from which he came out free. I am not yet satisfied with the accounts I have given of the superstitions and sorceries of the Indian people, for there still remains something for me to say, and thereby to give satisfaction to inquiring readers. In my time there was at Agrah a man called Hortencio Bronzony (Ortencio Bronzoni), a native of Venice, married to one of his slaves, a Hindu by birth. Her name was Suzana Borges, and she had a son by her [first]