_ 66 _ years the Jesuits(A)were there, and had much success, but since there were other religious(B) there and the country was not well disposed towards conversion, and since there were many Moors and foreign merchants (although many of its inhabitants had been baptised), it seemed to be of more service to Our Lord God to go to other places which were more disposed to conversion, and therefore had a more urgent demand. After Ormuz there is the fortress and city of Diu in the kingdom of Cambay,(C) where although there are no Fathers or people who particularly attend to conversion, nevertheless there is no lack of souls who, moved by the Holy Spirit and for other reasons besides, come to request holy baptism. And although those who chiefly govern the country are Saracens,(D) its real inhabitants, and those who cultivate the land, are all heathens called Banians,(E)who believe neither (A) From 1549 (when Father Barzeu was sent there) to 1568 (when Father Pedro de Tovar returned to Goa; cf. Documenta Indica VII 605). (B) Dominicans (Documenta Indica Vol VII 577). (C) Of Gujarat. (D) i.e Muslims. (E) Bani ans: “Strictly speaking the term denotes, especially in India, the Jains of Gujarat or Cambay who engage in trade...in Sanskrit, vanij is ‘merchant’ and vanigjana ‘businessman’; in Gujarati
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