_ 194 _ Every day Father António talked with her, and the boys taught her the meditations of the first week [of Spiritual Exercises], and some days later she made a general confession and the Father arranged for her to go to the house of a casado to be married from there, because here there is no other Order for women. 9. So, Father, we arrived at Ormuz, not without much labour among the sick, because it took eighteen days to reach Ormuz from Muscat, and the hens and cockerels and the preserves were all finished, and we had run out of things to give them except for some dried sea lampreys we had brought from Goa, and eight roasted onions, lentils and rice. The day before we arrived, we ordered a pig that was on the ship to be killed, as they asked for it so much, and Our Lord be praised, more than half were cured. We reached Ormuz one Wednesday morning, fifty days after leaving Goa. Boats came out to the ship to take off the sick, and we disembarked in the afternoon and went in procession with almost all the people from the ship to a church we have there called St Paul which Father Master Gaspar had built half a league outside the town(A). (A) It was first called 'do Bom Jesus'.
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