[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 356.3.4 # Storia do Mogor 356.3.4 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 356.3.4 - **Language:** English ### [356.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3.4) I now state what happened to me. On December 15 in the year 1706 it was the pleasure of the Divine Power to remove from this world my wife, with whom I had lived more than twenty years. The grief I underwent at that melancholy moment I neither know how to, nor ought I to, recount. All I will say is that it was the more profound for never having been experienced before. But, just as it appears to be the way of the world that sad events always come in company, and are never solitary, on the 29th of the same month Monsieur Martin died; he was the Governor of Pondicherry, nowadays called Fort St. Louis. By this second death I was plunged into nearly the same grief. He had been very much my friend, my true and ancient friend, and I had received from him great—very great—kindness, civility, and honour. \[206\] Still, in spite of all these misfortunes, I was able to console myself by placing reliance on the Divine will. Very few days had passed before there came upon me an occasion of still greater depression and sorrow. I know it to be a manifest injustice, not to be supported by those who cherish the slightest zeal for innocence. I see the true servants of God persecuted, men who have undergone the greatest labour for His service. These priests have never caused the least scandal, or given anyone the smallest occasion of murmuring against their doings; nor is it right that their work of charity should be censured. - [Previous: 356.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3.3) - [Next: 356.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3.5) - [Up: 356.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.356.3.4) · Pramāṇa