Storia do Mogor 340.3.1

340.3.1

At this time a Malabar [a Tamil] of this province of Karnãtik, a Christian belonging to the mission of the fathers of the Society [of Jesus], had celebrated the betrothal of his daughter to a young man of his own race ; and having concluded the ceremony, he started on a voyage to Manila. At the same time the man's wife and all his family moved to Tranquebar, and made it their abode, and remained some years during the absence of their husband and father. During these six years there grew up a most mystical friendship between the wife and the above-named native, who was in the service of the said Father Dom João. Such an intimacy was publicly accounted to be adulterous, both of them being young.