Note 78 — I 1185-1325

Padre Nobrega came upon a crowd of pobres pedintes peregrinos at Santiago feasting merrily and having grandes contendas entre si as to which of them was cleverest at taking people in. The trick of one of them was to declare that, being captive in Turkey, encommendando-me muito á Senhora ... achei-me ao outro dia ao romper da alva em terra de Christãos (Simão de Vasconcellos, Cronica, Lib. I, § 22). Cf. Jeronymo de Mendoça, Jornada de Africa, 1904 ed., ii. 34, and Frei Luis de Sousa, Hist. de S. Domingos, I. i. 5.