_ 214 _ foreigners who die in their domains. I handed over to him a few objects and trinkets, and a few pieces with rubies, begging him to try to go to Portugal and to take the letters from the Governor and the Captain. I also handed these over to him, as he would be well paid for them. I asked him to take the youth with him and free him as soon as he arrived in the land of Christians, for the most important thing was to save him; if not I did not know what to do with him. All that night I was deeply anguished, asking Our Lady of the Conception, with many tears, to hear the pleas of her Blessed Son not to allow me to die so abandoned in those deserted places. On the Saturday morning I felt so much better that I thought I was recovered, and I ate part of a chicken, something I had not been able to do for days. And so I proved to Our Lord that I was improving, to such an extent that in two or three days I felt myself totally recovered, without fever, to His honour and glory and to the honour and glory of Our Lady, the fortunate and most blessed Virgin, His mother. From here we struck camp with the sun already high, and travelling till the middle of the day we camped in a plain, where there was a great sepulcre, built like a square house, with four brick doorways but no doors, and with a
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