_ 143 _ The majority of the monks not having to go immediately, he sent one of their number with him; called Estevao, and having left Arguico he began riding over an uninhabited land, where there was nevertheless plenty of hunting for deer and gazelles. The next day he began to come across many groups of people travelling on foot and on horseback; and they also came on mules. The latter were from the party of the Barnegais, who were also travelling. After these people he saw four humble mules and four horses as large as those of Andalucia, and a little behind came the Barnegais and his team of animals. The brother of the governor of Arguico dismounted and went to speak to him, and the Barnegais continued going forward as they spoke. The magistrate, on reaching the Barnegais, dismounted to speak to him, and the latter halted the mule on which he was travelling. He was a man of good height, slim and slightly bent; he was about sixty, and dressed in white cotton cloth, over which he had a very fine cape. When the magistrate arrived, he kissed the Barnegais's robe at the knee, and told him that he was a Christian who had come with the fleet which the King of Portugal had sent to the port of Massawa, in the service of God and the Prester, and in exaltation of the Catholic faith.
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