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to receive his Letters, as to hear what news in China. But his furprize was 

 very great, to fee Belloy in that condition, and that the Captain would not let 

 him go, before he had furrender'd him up into the hands of the Inquiiitor. Ne- 

 verthelefs, in regard that St. Amant was a perfon of great credit, he obtained 

 of the Captain, that Belloy fhould go along with him into the City. As for Belloy 

 he immediately and for the nonce fhifted himfelf into his old Cloaths, which 

 were all to tatters and full of Vermin ; and St. Amant, who knew there was- 

 no dallying with the Inquifition, took that lèafon to prefent him to the Inqui- 

 fitor j who feeing a Gentleman in fuch a fad condition, had fome companion upon 

 him, and allow'd him the whole City for his Prifon ; on condition he fhould 

 furrende r his body upon demand, when he undérftood what was inform'd againft 

 him. In the interim St. Amant brings Du Belloy to my Lodging juft as I was 

 going to vifit the Arch-Bifhop of Mira, whom I formerly knew at Conftatitt- 

 nople, when he was Prior of the Francifcans at Galata. I defir'd them to ftay 

 à while and to dine with me, which they did ; after which I proffer'd my Houle 

 and Table to Du Belloy, who liv'd with me j and for whom I alfo bought two 

 new Suits of Apparel, and Linnen convenient. However, all the while that I 

 Itay'd at Goa, which was ten or twelve days, I could not perfwade the Sieur 

 Du Belloy to put on thofe new Cloaths, not knowing the reafon, though he 

 promis'd me every day. But being upon my departure, I told him I was go- 

 ing to take leave of the Vice-Roy; whereupon hedefird me to procure leave 

 for him alfo j which I did. We departed toward evening in the famé Vehel 

 wherein I came, and about midnight the Sieur Belloy began to fhift himlèlf, and 

 when he had done he threw his old raggs into the Sea, fwearing againft the In- 

 quifition like a mad man; I underftanding nothing all this while of the bufinels. 

 When I heard him fwear in that manner, I told him we were not yet out of 

 the Portugais hands ; neither were he and I with five or fix Servants, able to 

 defend our felves againft forty Sea-men that belong'd to the Ship. I ask'd him 

 then, why he fwore fo heartily againft the Inquifition ; he reply'd, that he would 

 tell me all the circumftances of the ftory ; which he did when we came to Mm- 

 grela, w r hich was about eight a Clock in the morning. When we landed we 

 met certain Hollanders with the Commander, who were eating Oyners and 

 drinking Sack upon the Shoar. Immediately they ask'd me who that perfon was 

 with me. Î told them it was a Gentleman who attending the French Ambafia- 

 dor into Portugal, had taken Shipping there for India, together with four or five 

 more whom he had left at Goa ; but that neither the fcituatiori of the place, 

 nor the humour of the Portugais pleafing him, he had defir'd my affiftance in 

 his return for Europe. Three or four days after, I bought him an Oxe to carry 

 him to Surat ; and I gave him a Servant to affift him, together with a Letter 

 to Father Zenon, a Capuchin, wherein I defir'd him to (peak to my Broker to 

 pay him ten Crowns a month for his fubfiftence, and to defire of the Englijb 

 Prefident to embark him for Europe with the firft opportunity. But it fell out 

 contrary to my intentions ; for Father Zenon carri'd him back again along with 

 him to Goa, where he had fome bufinefs to do for Father Ephraim his Com- 

 panion ; of whom I mall fpeak in the next Chapter. Father Zenon without 

 doubt believ'd, that Du Belloy making his appearance to the Inquifition, and 

 defiring his pardon, might have eafily obtain'd it. 'Tis very true he did obtain 

 it, but it was after he had been two years in the Inquifition, from which he 

 was not difcharg'd but with a Sulphur'd Shirt, with a St. Andrews Croîs upon 

 his Stomack. There was with him another Gentleman, calPd pénis de Bar vpon 

 the Seine, who was us'd in the fame manner; and thev always put them to ac- 

 company thofe who were put to death. The Sieur Du Bsiioy did very ill to 

 return to Goa, and worfe to appear afterwards again at Mi. gela, where the 

 Hollanders, who underftanding he had formerly revolted out of their fèr- 

 vice, by the intelligence they receiv'd from their Commander àt Surdtj feiz'd 

 his perfon, and fent him away in a Ship that was going for aatao^. They pre- 

 tended that they fent him to' the General of the Company, to do with" him' as 

 he fhould think fitting. But I am in part afllir'd, that as (con as the Vêfiël was 

 out at Sea, they put the poor Gentleman into a Suck, and threw him into the 

 Sea. This was the end of the Sieur Du EelLy, 



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