_ 112 _ A fortress in that country, called the Monajão(A), rebelled and was captured by treachery. Two hundred of those men who were mentioned before, plus a further two hundred later, totalling four hundred, and a Moorish captain with five thousand Moors, were sent to attack it. The commander-in -chief of these troops was Pantaleão de Sá, nephew(B) of the Governor of India. There was no point in my administering confessions or preaching about this matter. Everyone ridiculed confessions and sermons and left without them, saying: It is rule upon rule, some have, some there watch out and keep watching out(C), leave us alone, we have no desire to know Your ways(D), We have entered into a covenant with death, we have made a pact with hell(E). What will it profit us if we serve Him(F). About twenty of them confessed and when the commander came to ask my blessing, I told him about the misfortune that I feared, and that is what happened. (A) Manudjan, a town and castle in southern Persia, about 150 kilometres from Ormuz, in the direction of the eastern sector (see also SCHURHAMMER Q 2005). (B) Panlaleon de Sá, Garcia de Sá’s blood relative. (C) Cf. Isaiah 28, 10. (D) Cf. Job 21, 14. (E) Cf. Isaiah 28, 15. (F) Cf. Job 21, 15.
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