_ 142 _ When the monks entered, they took the cross and venerated it with such devotion and reverence that no one could help saying thanks to God who witnessed it, and after this they showed great reverence to Mateus. Then the governor ordered them to be given refreshment in his room, and they had dates, nuts and other fruits, because they did not eat either meat or fish. When they had informed the governor concerning the monastery and the rule of the monks there, he gave them permission to go with Mateus in the ship he was travelling in. After a short time, they returned to Arguico and the magistrate also went there, as the governor ordered him to go and see the monastery at Bissan, and learn what the monks had said about him. He gave him a letter to the true governor of Arguico, who had arrived from the house of the Barnegais where he had been. The other man was not the real governor and had only been deputizing for him. He sent him a gift. Chapter: XXVI When the magistrate arrived at Anguico, as the town governor knew he wanted to go to the monastery, he ordered his brother to go with him, taking fifteen men. He gave him two mules for two of our men who were going with him.
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