Storia do Mogor 265.7.2

265.7.2

Finding that they could not carry out their orders, the magistrate and residents sent a present to the prince, and a letter requesting him to make over Christovao Pexoto to them alive. This money, a thing which can effect much among the Indians, caused the prince to make over the insolent fellow in chains into the hands of the citizens. These ordered his delivery to Joao Soares Cove. On reaching his presence, Pexoto, instead of showing repentance and asking pardon, called Cove over and over again a cuckold and other unseemly names. His wrath rising higher and higher, the injured man flung himself on his enemy with a pointed knife and stabbed him to the heart. Instead of commending his soul to God in these his last throes, Pexoto continued his abuse until he expired. Cove filled his two hands with the blood flowing from the wound and drank it, then smeared his whole body, face and head, with the blood, finally mutilating the dead man. After this was over, he hastened home to kill his wife. But, warned in time, she had fled to Trangabar (Tranquebar) in the company of a servant-boy she took to show her the way. On reaching his house Cove found his wife gone, and that the servant had removed her. He left the town and hid near the road, and as the servant was returning he killed him. For several days he went about all bloody, solely to prove that he had wreaked vengeance for his wrongs.