_ 190 _ also began to hear confessions, and almost everyone came to confess, and although many were reluctant to do so they were persuaded by his preaching. There was on board a man so hardened that he had not confessed for fourteen or fifteen years, and he had with him a woman who had not confessed for the same length of time. He was moved by a sermon and came to the Father to ask for confession, and the Father at once gave him a penance and also for his concubine. He confessed all the slaves of the Portuguese, and made some important reconciliations, most of all between the master and the pilot, and between other men of rank, who had resolved to treat each other badly when they reached land. 5. With the preaching and catechism there were also conversions on the ship, two adult Moors and three youths, and the wife of an Indian; first a slave and then the woman, whom Father António gave into the care of a Portuguese woman who was travelling in the ship. When we reached Ormuz, he sent her to the house of a local casado who was very devoted to our Order, to be married there. The converts were made Christians on board ship with enough ceremony to please everyone. We set up two altars, one where the Father said Mass and another where he blessed water, and we went in
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