_ 30 _ not believe that it was land, but rather a black cloud, very high, with white clouds beneath it, until one approaches it and can see that it is land. They say there is none higher in theworld.(A) 26. Before reaching Goa, as the waters flow towards the Strait of Mecca, we were held back a little. We had a very difficult day, because as we were already within the reaches of Goa, lying at sixteen and a half degrees, we were in calm waters, and did not know how far we were from Goa, nor did we have much water, so much so that it was not enough for a quartillo a day for each man. However, the following day, when we could see land, there was no longer a lack of water - indeed there was an abundance of everything. We all arrived together and were received by the priests and brothers who came in some rafts.(B) In St Pablo in Goa we were received with the usual charity, and we, Father Dionisio, Father Marcos,(C) Brother Jacome(D) and I, are doing that which obedience orders us to do. Father Cabrera went to Bassein and Father Cabral(E) (A) The volcano Kartala, 2450m on the principal island. (B) Manchua: a vessel from Malabar with one mast and a square sail: a galliot. From the Malayali mañji, Machvä in Marathi (Dalgado II 19). (C) Moech. (D) de Braga. (E) Emmanuel Cabral.
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