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whoever should permit that in the churches where were 

 celebrated the highest mysteries of our redemption the devil 

 should erect altars to the perfidious Mafoma 1 , in which his 

 sectaries should sacrifice and should commit the nefand abuses 

 of his depraved law: and with these and similar reasons, 

 dictated by a truly Christian and loyal courage, he went on 

 dissuading him, reminding him by the way of the temporal 

 obligations of honour and fealty — what it was to sell and 

 betray Christians, professors of his law, to barbarous Moors, 

 who with rigorous torments would make them follow the 

 deceptions of the Alcoran, and would cruelly tear to pieces 

 those that despised their diabolical rites ; and the infamy that 

 in time to come would rest upon the Portuguese nation in the 

 parts of the East, it being said among the infidels that there 

 was a Portuguese who for a scanty portion of rice betrayed his 

 countrymen and friends, with whom he had crossed such vast 

 seas and sailed to climes so remote 2 ; that he should trust hi 

 God, because he never entirely forsook whoever knew and 

 confessed his most holy name : and with one discourse and 

 another he brought him to where was the father Frey Simao 

 de Nasaret, and before him gave him an account of the 

 affair, and of the determination of those desperados, the 

 which the father heard with very great grief in his heart, 

 and taking Luis Carvalho by the hand, he embraced him 

 many times, and consoled and encouraged him in the 

 present adversity, assuring him of relief with a speediness 

 as great as was the need in which God knew that fortress 

 was : and so many things did he say to him, God moving 

 his tongue, that, with the warnings and admonitions that 

 Francisco de Macedo had given him, Carvalho yielded, 

 confessing his sin, originated by the general strait in which he 

 was ; and leaving Francisco de Macedo with the captain of 

 his bastion, Manoel Lourenco, he went with Luis Carvalho to 

 the captain, and related to him the whole affair, and what had 

 been planned amongst those soldiers. 



■ Pedro de Atayde cast his eyes to heaven, and gave great 

 thanks to God our Lord for the mercy he had shown them in 

 discovering to them that affair, which , had it not become known 

 in that way, could not have failed to cause the loss of that 

 fortress : and embracing Luis Carvalho many times, he spoke 



1 Muhammad. All the references to " Moors " as forming Raja 

 Sinha's army, like these to the Muhammadan religion, display an 

 ignorance, which must be credited to Macedo, and not to Couto, who 

 certainly knew better. 



2 This clause is an echo of two lines in the first verse of the Lusiad. 



