Storia do Mogor 353.2.7

353.2.7

When Ignatio reached the paternal dwelling he was very pleased, but, finding that his father was not sending him away from Mahomedan territory, as I had suggested, he said to him: 'My father, why do you keep me in the house, and do not at once send me into Portuguese territory? Do you not see that one of these days the Mahomedans will come to steal me?' The ignorant father answered that he kept him in his house to revenge himself on Maria de Ataides, and to be able to recover the plunder that his wife had robbed him of. What an impossibility! Thus my counsels were of no use to him, nor did in aught avail the words and repeated insistence of his son. We shall see what things came to pass. After twelve days the men of Maria de Ataides went to Dihlí, and asserting that the youth was in his father's house, they went before the king and recounted to him the above circumstances. Forthwith the king ordered soldiers to be sent to seize the youth and bring him to the Presence. As soon as the king saw him he appointed him one of his pages, with charge of carrying his sword during audience, being a well-formed and graceful youth. Then after some years he was appointed captain of artillery, and at the present time he is married and has sons and daughters.