_ 361 _ Episodes of the year 1559 Father Melchior Carneiro (Society of Jesus) sent a letter to Father Diogo Leones, the General Bishop of the Society of Jesus in Rome, Goa, on the 20th of November 1559, in which he mentioned the defeat of the Turks by the Abyssinians:(40) Paras. No: 3, 32 3. As to the state of things regarding Prester John, even though it might lose me the blessing of the Father Patriarch,(A) I shall not omit to say what I know and what I feel so that you may be better informed. Until now we had little hope of being able to enter there since the ports of (A) D Joao Nunes Barreto, whose most important task was that of Ethiopia. (40) Document no. and reference.
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