[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) › 281.8.1 # Storia do Mogor 281.8.1 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 281.8.1 - **Language:** English ### [281.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.1) Picture to yourself, my dear reader, that they strip the wretched culprit quite naked, bind him to a tree, and there flog him in such a way that the miserable man never undergoes it without having to enter hospital to get the wounds dressed which the scourge has caused. But ordinarily he finds there the cure of all ills, and thus an establishment dedicated to charity and the relief of the poor becomes the shelter of men suffering from disgraceful maladies or of unhappy beings who have felt the rigour of the reverend fathers' sentences. Even these all perish miserably, as I have said. The King of Portugal, out of his gracious bounty, pays yearly to this hospital fourteen thousand seraphim (? ashrafi), the money being placed in the hands of their reverences, who come in for the greater part of it. For, as the patients are in the hospital only a short time, the expenses are thereby much diminished. This is profitable to the Society (the Jesuits); nevertheless, they set no great store by it, saying sometimes that they believe there is hardly enough over to pay for lamp-oil in their college. But I should never be at an end if I were to repeat all that might be said on this subject. All the more willingly do I relieve myself of this task because I am persuaded that their reverences are well known to the world, chiefly by all honest and able men. To them I leave it to supplement what I omit. - [Previous: 281.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.7.7) - [Next: 281.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.2) - [Up: 281.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.1) · Pramāṇa