ABSTRACT
On the same ship on which Fathers Antonio Fernandez and Francisco Antonio de Angelis went to Çuaquên, the pasha sent a servant of his called Mahamed Chilibî with merchandise back to Diu, since he had seen the favours that they had done to Mahamêd Agâ and the profit that he made on the goods brought back to him. The superiors of the Society in India knew from our letters that we three fathers were not enough to attend to the Portuguese and Catholics, since they were very spread out and one father had to attend the court in order to explain the ways of our holy faith to the emperor and the great men and to try to instil in them a liking for them. They therefore decided to send Father Luis d’Açevedo, a Portuguese, and Father Lourenço Romano, from Rome, who were in the college in Diu. Having been advised of this, they sought to have the same favours done to that servant of the pasha as had been done to the other one in the customs house, and they too showed him what hospitality they could. And so, when they said that they wished to go with him in order to enter {[f. 431]} Ethiopia, he said that he would willingly bring them and that his lord would do them many honours, as he had to the ones that had come the previous year. Added to this was the fact that the captain of the ship on which they were to come was a Moor from Diu, who was called Mahamêd Gî, who was a good friend of the pasha, and so he too took charge of them.
