ABSTRACT

In the earlier portions of our narrative we wrote all that we then knew concerning the mission undertaken by Brother Bento de Goes of our Company for the discovery of the Christians said to be living in the realms of Catayo, and of what befell him on his way. As it has pleased God that he should accomplish his mission, though the end was not what he had expected, we shall now tell what we know of the remainder of his journey and how it ended. But first, to preserve the thread of our story, we shall briefly recapitulate what we have already written.