Storia do Mogor 265.9.1

265.9.1

I will also recount what happened to me, and what I have seen and undergone. I have already told you in my book (Part II., p. 235) how, upon my arrival in these regions, the chief personages of San Thomé did me the honour to receive me with civility, and offered to put themselves at my service. Among them were Manoel Texeyra Pinto, chief captain (capitaõ mor), Joao da Costa de Sua, Cosmo Lourenço Madeyra, Antonio Palha de Lima, and Manoel da Silva de Menezes. I had treated them and their families gratis. A year afterwards there came to me from Goa a sum of three thousand and seven hundred patacas (=Rs. 7,400), which I had deposited with Father Salvador Gallo, prefect of the Theatines. The said father handed the money to my attorney, Joao Lopes de Figueredo, a Portuguese born in India, to be delivered to me. When this man arrived at the port of San Thome the above named were at that time governing, and were also the magistrates. Thus, when the said Joao landed, they seized him and confiscated everything he brought with him, taking possession also of his ship, under the false declaration that he was the debtor of certain Jews called Bertolameo Rodrigues, Domingos do Porto, and Alvaro da Fonecqua. These magistrates called upon him to pay a debt due from a man of his (Figueredo's) faction, called Francisco de Lima, owed to the above Jews. These latter were much delighted at the benefit thus done them.