[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) › 339.7 # Storia do Mogor 339.7 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 339.7 - **Language:** English ### [339.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.339.7) In the year 82 \[1682\] I came across this reverend father in the city of Goa. He paid me a visit, and espying a matchlock in my room, he loaded it with five charges of powder, each with a ball rammed down on it. He then gave a salvo of five shots with great ease. But when he placed the powder-horn to the fire-pan, he did it so that no one could see. I was much amazed, and the Lord Viceroy Dom Francisco de Távora having been told, he employed me as negotiator to get the Carmelite to teach them this secret. As a reward ten thousand xerafins (ashrafis) were offered, and other gifts. But the Carmelite informed me that the secret could be confided to no one but a leading member of his own house. The \[233\] above-mentioned friar went to Rome and came back to Surat as archbishop \[of Ansira (Ancyra)\], bringing a number of missionaries. In a short time he died of a purgative administered to him by the Jesuit fathers, who, after his death, realized fourteen rupees for the dose. - [Previous: 339.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.339.6) - [Next: 339.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.339.8) - [Up: 339](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.339) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.339.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.339.7) · Pramāṇa