_ 144 _ The Barnegais said that his coming was very good, and that it must have been a great labour to journey so far. A meeting with the governor would rouse the country. As he was going to the monastery of Bissan he should return soon because he wanted to speak with him before his meeting with the governor. The governor was ordering others to go with him, and he did not like this. When he had parted from the Barnegais the magistrate resumed his journey and began to travel through some hills along the banks of a river, among thick luxuriant undergrowth, where many cattle were grazing. He saw a good eight thousand cows moving along, and on the top of one of the hills an open space with a vegetable garden and orange trees, adjoining the garden was a fence enclosing a monastery, and he approached it. At the door of the church an old monk received him and gave him a cross to kiss. Afterwards they entered the church, which was square, without a chancel, and the high altar was also square standing away from the wall. It was draped in black cloth, on which there was an image of the angel St. Michael. There was no other altar, some distance away there was a silk curtain which stretched from wall to wall, and on all the walls were painted pictures of saints, among them was St. George, as we show him, and Moses with the tablets of the law.
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