Storia do Mogor 266.4.4

266.4.4

Now I have come to the finale of my History, an object by me so ardently desired. As I have had the good fortune to finish these three Books, and narrate the things that happened to me in these eight-and-forty years, may it also please God that this work, which I present to Europeans, may succeed in the object on which I have set my heart. Meanwhile I am making my preparations for a much longer journey, and am in search of the true route and the safest that can be hoped for. The veritable terminus of our desires being what the Lord All-Powerful wishes, may He grant assurance to my search for it. The reader must meanwhile content himself with accepting these my labours, without pointing out in them the absence of flowers. For how can one produce flowers when for ever dwelling in the midst of thorns ?