_ 60 _ But Father Master Francis did not want it because as yet there were only a few of us, and he sent me back from there to Goa. That night we spent with the Franciscan Fathers, who treated us with such love as though we had been brothers of the same Order. From there we returned to Goa, where Father Master Francis gave me much work to do, laying on me a heavier burden than I could bear, as he thought that I could do anything. In the end I appealed to the Lord God and to Father Master Francis, so that they recognized my insufficiency and removed the yoke under which I was suffocating, thanks be to God. He decided to send me to Ormuz, which is a kingdom within Persia, lying in the Persian Gulf between Arabia Felix and Persia I where he had never been and wished very much to visit were it not for the Journey to Japan, because of all he had heard of the great sins that were committed in Ormuz. In this country it is so sultry in summer that there is no more intemperate country in the world, according to those who have been in Mina and S. Tomé and Guinea and the region of Melindi, which lies below the equator, who say that there is no comparison with the sultriness
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