_ 70 _ those of Coena Domini as well as those for which I was empowered, so that they should honour me as they would him in person. I heard twenty confessions of serious cases, and those who lived with concubines threw them out of their households and parting from them, for which I gave many thanks to the Lord who sent me to that desert as a remedy to those lost souls. I freed them from large usury agreements which they had with these Moors, and gave them means of livelihood. The captain-in-chief asked me to travel in his fusta, but I would not leave the hospitality of my ship. We left there and came to Ormuz, and before we disembarked in the port two boats came rowing towards us as fast as they could. In one of them, the commander of the guard of the King of Ormuz, Tristão de Orta, sent me a large dinner, and the other brought the vicar of this city and all its clergy. I threw myself at his feet and kissed his hand, as did my companion, and that this was done by members of the Society of Jesus, which is held in such esteem, was much remarked. These Fathers took us to the hospital and the fortress, where the captain received us with great honour, and
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