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can make himconfenc towhat is jiifi:. He makes no difficulty to caufea lean- The Authorit/ 
daioLis Chriftiaii to be put in Priibn, and if complaint be made of it to the 
Governour or Cofo«i?/, defiring that the Prifoncr may be fet at liberty, they 
both fend the Petitioner to the Father jtelling him that it is a matter they are 
not to meddle with. If the Supplicant find favour with them, they only 
offer their Interceflion with the Capucin ^ and one day I faw a Man whom 
he had let out of Prifon at the entreaty of the Cotoual feverely.chid by that 
OfHcer,becaufe he had incurred the indignation of Father Ambrofe. Thofc 
whofe lives are too irregular he baniflies the Town, and the Cûf^)//,^/ him- 
felf gives him ?iom to force them out, with Orders to condu6l them to the 
piace the Ca^uan (hall appoint. 
He employs his interelt pretty often for the Heathen -, and I faw a Pagan 
whom they carried to Prifon for a flight fault, delivered at his requelh 
He difpiites boldly concerning the Faith in the Governours prefence -, and 
one day he reclaimed a Chriftian Wonian debauched by one of the Queens 
Secretaries, who that flie might live licciuioully, had renounced her Reli- 
gion and embraced the Mahometan -, and one Morning he himfclf went and 
refcued her out of the hands of that Gentil, hideed, his life hath been al- 
ways without reproach, which is no fmall praife for a Man who lives in a 
Country where there are fo many different Nations that live in fo great dif- 
orders, and with whom his charge c^bliges him to keep company. 
A Mahon[etan Feftival. 
I thought I had obferved in my Book of Verpa all the Feftivals which the 
Moors or Mahometans celebrate, butthey had one in this Town which I had 
never feen before. They call it the Feaft of Choubret, and believe that on '^^^ ^^^^ °f 
that day the good Angels examine tie Souls of the departed,and write down 
all the gocwi that they have done in neir life-times, and tliat the bad Angels 
fum up all their evil adions the lime day. So that every one employs 
that day wherein they believe thatGod takes an account of the Adions of 
Men, in Praying to Him, doing Alus-deeds, and fending one another Pre- 
fents. They end the Feftival wi^ Lights and Bon-fires kindled in the 
Streets and publick places, and a gEat many Fire-works which flie about 
on all hands, whil'ft the Rich mutii'.Uy treat one another with Collations 
and Feafts which they make in the viry Streets or Shops. 
CHAP xvin. 
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Of the other Towns of Gu^erat, and the Siege of 
Diu hy the Turks, whi;h was defended by the 
Portuguefe. \ 
BEfides the Towns of the Province 0JGux.erat whereof I have fpokenj 
there are above thirty others, on wlch depend a great many Bourgs 
and Villages-, butthofe which lie near thSea, are the moft confiderable. 
Broudra is one of the beft, lying betwixt tfoche and Cambaj/e, but more to- Broudr/t a 
wards the Eaft, in a moft fertile though ùdy Country : It is a large mo- Town, 
dern Town, and retains the Name of anqier ruined Town, which is but 
"three quarters of a League from it, and hafcieen called Broudra and Ragea- Ragea-pour % 
four : It hath pretty good Walls and Tow^ is inhabited by a great ma- 'ï'o*"- 
ny Banians ^ and feeing the fineft Stuffs in (icerat are made m this Town, 
It is full of Artizans who are continually enlloyed in making of them. It 
hath 
