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sliips from India, and, tliaoks to their kindness and charity, we gained a 
passage to the port of Pondicherry. 
Signor Dupless was at this time governor of the settlement, who received 
us with much kindness and attention, and finding that we had been driven 
from our mission, so poor and ill -equipped, he kindly payed two hundred 
Roman crowns for our passage to L'Orient in Bretagne, From that place 
we embarked for Marseilles, and from Marseilles to Civita Vecchia, whence 
we finally removed to the holy city of Rome, for the purpose of delivering 
in a faithful account of our voyage and mission into Ethiopia, and at the 
same time most humbly to kiss the feet of our most holy Pontiff Bene- 
dict XIV. happily reigning, and the sacred purple of all the eminent Car- 
dinals of the Propaganda, 
From the Convent of St. Peter in Montorio" 26th July i T54. 
Signed Fra. Remedio de Bohemia, 
Vice Prefect of Ethiopia, 
