_ 188 _ companionship is such that if there were to be any hard work it would seem to me repose. 2. My dear Father, as my soul feels a great expansion through those things that Our Lord is bringing about through the Society in these parts and others, I will tell you of those which the Lord has worked through Father António from the time we left Goa until we reached this island of Ormuz. It will not be to give an account of Arabia and Persia and the Strait and the kingdoms, because I think that is already known by letters from here, but only about what happened on the voyage and then here at Ormuz. 3. We left Goa on Easter Day, 2 April, in the year 1553, and sailed towards the meridian of Ormuz to find the westerly winds which come at a certain time. As we were going towards Ormuz [and had reached the meridian) the north-westerlies ceased to blow, and we were waiting for the westerlies. We were be calmed for seven or eight days, because when the north- westerlies have finished there are these calms before the westerlies come. It is said that two Portuguese ships which were bound for Ormuz have perished through thirst; at the same place, in the monsoon when Father Master Gaspar was coming to Ormuz, they were on the verge of dying from thirst and
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