sometimes other parts have been contracted.

Several memorials and letters, which are printed at the end of the
dissertations to secure the credit of the foregoing narrative, are
entirely left out.

It is hoped that, after this confession, whoever shall compare this
attempt with the original, if he shall find no proofs of fraud or
partiality, will candidly overlook any failure of judgment.




PART I - THE VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA




Chapter I



The author arrives after some difficulties at Goa. Is chosen for
the Mission of Aethiopia. The fate of those Jesuits who went by
Zeila. The author arrives at the coast of Melinda.


I embarked in March, 1622, in the same fleet with the Count
Vidigueira, on whom the king had conferred the viceroyship of the
Indies, then vacant by the resignation of Alfonso Noronha, whose