_ 72 _ I greeted his like a brother and conversed with the others. I also spoke to the captain(A) and the other people as I thought fit. After lodging two or three days with the Vicar, I went of St. Paul’s(B), which is the same distance from the city as the monastery of Celas is from Coimbra(C), where I found a hermitage. I did not stay in the hospital as there was no room where I could study, and also because Father superior Gaspar was staying there. I do not wish to conceal something that happened here when I arrived, which, although it may be reported by the Moors, it please Our Lord that it is true. As soon as I arrived in this city, I saw a letter from Mecca. To the King of Ormuz, to whom a certain Zaid, leading person of the house of Mecca and a close relative of Mohammed, was writing. In it he implored and ordered his to instruct all his family, both great and small, and to fast on certain days, because God was very angry with them. It had also been revealed to him that the religion of Mohammed was soon to pass away and be destroyed for the in 1550 (Botelho), Torre do Estado da India 96). (A) D. Alvaro de Noronha (SCHURHAMMER, Q 4889). (B) The College of the Society of Jesus was not finished by Father Barzeu. (C) Celas, a well-known royal monastery, today a suburb of Coimbra.
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