[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) › 281.8.8 # Storia do Mogor 281.8.8 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 281.8.8 - **Language:** English ### [281.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.8) As a relief to himself the Father Administrator entertains at this hospital a Topass chaplain, who looks after the patients, so they say. But if the matter is looked into, he is only there for the better catching of the poor ' renols ' \[Portuguese fresh from Europe\], who, departing this life, leave the chaplain as their testamentary executor. This is why after a death a special auction is held, within the very hospital, of all that belonged to the deceased. All rests in the hands of the Father Administrator or the Father Apothecary ; and the things go for much less than they are worth or they could be sold for at public outcry. Such auctions ought to take place \[27\] at the House of Mercy, in obedience to the orders of his Portuguese majesty. By this device everything becomes a profit to their reverences, who send away these things to the north to other persons, who sell them at a high profit. In this way the poor patients in that hospital are ill-served in life and still worse after death. Thus it is that many who fancy they are falling asleep at night to awake in the morning sleep on with the sleep that knows no waking. - [Previous: 281.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.7) - [Next: 281.9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.9.1) - [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.281.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.8) · Pramāṇa