Storia do Mogor 340.3.5

340.3.5

Since the Malabãrî was a poor man, the whole of his caste assembled and undertook to pay the said sixty pagodas in one month. Even this did not avail. But the Governor of Madras, being a heretic, decided that such slaves should not be embarked in the ship leaving for Manila. Thereupon the worthy vicar took them away, and sent them for sale elsewhere into the hands of the infidels. The husband in desperation, made off, it was never known where; and probably he returned to Hinduism, since he was unable to secure justice among Christians. [245a] After Dā,ūd Khān had taken the fortress of Pilconda (Penukonda), as already stated (V. 168 and 185), he came to San Thome in the month of November (1706). Before entering the town he rested for one day and one night in my house, situated at the foot of Monte Grande (the Great Mount), of which I have already spoken (IV. 106). I was unable to go out myself to meet him by reason of the heavy rain then falling. The following day he came on to San Thome, and went straight to see the Lord Bishop, prostrating himself at his feet, as is their custom in the case of religious mendicants. The Bishop received him in the church with music and instruments. On his leaving he presented three hundred and fifty rupees to the household of the said Most Illustrious, and then retired to his tents.