[14] The Grand Inquisitor.
[15] The Holy Office had power over all but the Viceroy and Archbishop, and they did not dare openly to interpose in behalf of any prisoner, under pain of being reported to the Inquisitor and his Council in Portugal, and being recalled. Even the Papal threats were disregarded by that dread tribunal.
[16] No description of the building and its accommodations is given. Captain Marryat’s graphic account of it in the “Phantom Ship,” must be fresh in the memory of all readers. The novelist seems to have borrowed his account from the pages of Dellon.
[17] An Arab chieftain sent a civil request to the governor, desiring liberty to buy provisions. The answer was a bit of pork wrapped up in paper, and a message, that such was the only food likely to be furnished. The chieftain’s wife, who was a Sayyideh, a woman of the Prophet’s tribe, and a lady of proper spirit, felt the insult so keenly, that she persuaded her husband and his tribe to attack Muscat and massacre all its defenders. This event took place in 1650.
[18] He calls it the “Aljouvar.” It is probably a corrupted Arabic word الجبر Al-jabr, “the prison.”
[19] The Straight Street, so called because almost all the streets of Goa were laid out in curvilinear form.
[20] St. Catherine was appointed patron saint of Goa, because the city was taken by the Portuguese on her day.
[21] Calling upon the name of the Almighty.
[22] A particular class of Hindoo devotee and beggar.
[23] Yellow is the colour usually chosen by the Hindoo when about to “do some desperate deed.”