Storia do Mogor 276.7

276.7

It seems to me all this was God's punishment for the fearful tyranny exercised in those lands. Many times the Portuguese stormed the stockades and villages within the king's boundary [442], sparing no single creature. Other captives they would send out to the road, and put them on spits on both sides of it for the distance of a league. There were other cruelties and oppressions which I have no wish to relate, in order not to anger the reader. Their losses of territory in India itself were due to the same causes.