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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
From Goa, Octob. 10, 1623
HAVING a fit opportunity, according to my desire to make an excursion from Goa farther into India, more Southwards to Canarà, upon occasion of this Vice-Roy's dispatching Sig: Gio Fernandez Leiton, Ambassador to Venktapà Niekà, a Gentile Prince of that Province, and conceiving that my journey will begin within three or four days, I have therefore determin'd to write this Letter to you, that it may be convey'd by the first occasion of the Ships which are now preparing for a Voyage from India into Europe, for I know not certainly how far I shall travel, nor how long I shall stay out before my return to Goa, whether moneths or years. As little do I know what other opportunity or convenient place I shall meet withall to write to you; nevertheless I shall omit none that offers itself, and in the mean time present you with the continuation of my Diary.
Having been here in Goa too much shut up in the House of the Jesuits, on the first of May I parted from them after many civil treatments and favours receiv'd of them, according to their most affectionate hospitality; and went to the House prepar'd for me, right over against that of SigraLena da Cugna, which stands between the Convents of the Bare-footed Carmelites, and the Converted Nunns of S. Mary Magdalene, in a remote but not inconvenient place, nor far from the commerce of the City, and the more acceptable to me because near the residence of Mariàm Tinatin.
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