Storia do Mogor 353.4.6

353.4.6

Once when they were performing these solemn acts one of the officials of the law courts, being more tipsy than the rest, boasted that he could rise into the air along with the firework and come down to earth again unharmed. Over this assertion several wagers for large sums were entered into, because some believed and others disbelieved him. To sum up, to avoid any [94] fraud that the man might attempt, they bound him by his hands to the end of the firework. The end, shaped like a tail, is made out of a large tree called bambu, a great number of which grow in that forest, and they are eight cubits in length. When ten o'clock at night arrived, following their custom they set alight to the firework, and all the people began to run and shout as is their fashion. The next day they found the firework a league away from the place where fire had been applied to it, and the drunkard who had been tied to it was found to have been burnt.