Storia do Mogor 344.2.7

344.2.7

The next day the old man wanted to go out, as was his custom. Brother Alexo, who was the janitor, barred his exit, telling him it was necessary to have a permit from the Provincial. Hearing these words, the old man exclaimed at the affront, and lamented over this breach of their promises. The fathers, the further to annoy and irritate him, reproved him sharply; while he, being most violently angry, told them they had cheated him. His lamentations were, however, of no avail, since the fathers cried aloud, like men on whom has fallen some great misfortune. Then they began to say one to the other that the man had gone mad; therefore some said they must bleed him, others felt his pulse, and asserted he wanted a mixture to produce vomiting; others, again, suggested repeated purgings. Thus, simply on account of that fine rage he had fallen into, did they dispose of him maliciously as a madman, without his arguments having a chance of being heard. Finally, they laid hold of him violently and shut him up in a prison cell. They announced to the public that he was insane, and thus did he finish his days in misery. When I was living in the island of Salsette, near to Bassain, a most curious affair came to pass. Near the settlement of Bandora, belonging to the Jesuits, there lay a village at a distance of two leagues from the town. It was commonly called Irlemparlem (? Warli Parela), and the owner's name was George Gonzalves, a Portuguese by race.