At Length, When It Appeared That The Viceroy Had Neither Forces Nor
Authority Sufficient For This Undertaking, It Was Agreed That I
Should Go Immediately Into Europe, And Represent At Rome And Madrid
The Miserable Condition Of The Missions Of Abyssinia.
The viceroy
promised that if I could procure any assistance, he would command in
person the fleet and forces
Raised for the expedition, assuring that
he thought he could not employ his life better than in a war so
holy, and of so great an importance, to the propagation of the
Catholic faith.
Encouraged by this discourse of the viceroy, I immediately prepared
myself for a voyage to Lisbon, not doubting to obtain upon the least
solicitation everything that was necessary to re-establish our
mission.
Never had any man a voyage so troublesome as mine, or interrupted
with such variety of unhappy accidents; I was shipwrecked on the
coast of Natal, I was taken by the Hollanders, and it is not easy to
mention the danger which I was exposed to both by land and sea
before I arrived at Portugal.
End of A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo
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