_ 56 _ People confess every day and often receive the Blessed Sacrament on Sundays, so that the whole of this land is reformed. Every Sunday they go to hear him preach. On one occasion a Moor of the King of the country went to hear him and, without being able to speak or understand Portuguese, returned to the King to give an exact account of everything. This man was his servant. The King had Master Gaspar summoned to his presence, but the captain prevented him from going. He sleeps in poverty in a straw hut inside the hospital. The Fathers who follow the order of the Bishop, are all moved and reformed. Every Saturday they all go in procession, reciting litanies and singing, to the shrine of Our Lady, which is half a league from this island. Everything needed for the upkeep of the island comes from the interior on the mainland: every kind of fruit, fowl and game just like in Portugal, as well as many other species of animal and bird. There are a great many palm groves in this country that produce dates. There is a male palm tree among them that does not bear fruit, but it enjoys great renown because all the other palms submit to it in this way: (in January and February, which is the season in which this fruit begins to
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