[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 266.4.3 # Storia do Mogor 266.4.3 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 266.4.3 - **Language:** English ### [266.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.4.3) When I was in Bandora, near the island of Bombaim (Bombay), in the year one thousand six hundred and seventy-seven, there was a Portuguese there called Antonio de Deixas, who wanted me to marry his daughter. His hope was that he would be supported by me, as I had a quantity of money. He made many efforts through priests and friars, who are ordinarily in this land of India the marriage-brokers ; but finding that no effort prevailed over me, and that I had already penetrated his true purpose, he went to a sorcerer to ask for a potion to make me love his daughter. The sorcerer gave the drug. The Portuguese wanted to test whether the mixture was efficacious, and took a little. Forthwith he fell into such miserable condition that, leaving the rightful paths of Nature, he became mad and pursued his daughter, committing such acts as to force his relations to separate them, and put him in another dwelling. Nor by this did he get rid of his trouble ; it was requisite to put chains on his legs, and in this miserable condition he soon after died, and I had a lucky escape. - [Previous: 266.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.4.2) - [Next: 266.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.4.4) - [Up: 266.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.266.4.3) · Pramāṇa