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OLD GOA AS IT WAS.
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this they sent him heavily ironed on board a boat
which finally deposited him in the Casa Santa."""
There he was taken before the Mesa, or Board,
stripped of all his property, and put into the cham-
brette destined for his reception.
Three weary years spent in that dungeon gave
Dellon ample time to experience and reflect upon
the consequences of amativeness and disputative-
ness. After being thrice examined by the grand
Inquisitor, and persuaded to confess his sins by
the false promise of liberty held out to him,
driven to despair by the system of solitary im-
prisonment, by the cries of those who were being
tortured, and by anticipations of the noose and
the faggot, he made three attempts to commit
suicide. During the early part of his convalescence
he was allowed the luxury of a negro fellow-pri-
soner in his cell; but when he had recovered
strength this indulgence was withdrawn. Five or
six other examinations rapidly succeeded each other,
and finally, on the 11th of January, 1676, he was
* 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.
53
this they sent him heavily ironed on board a boat
which finally deposited him in the Casa Santa."""
There he was taken before the Mesa, or Board,
stripped of all his property, and put into the cham-
brette destined for his reception.
Three weary years spent in that dungeon gave
Dellon ample time to experience and reflect upon
the consequences of amativeness and disputative-
ness. After being thrice examined by the grand
Inquisitor, and persuaded to confess his sins by
the false promise of liberty held out to him,
driven to despair by the system of solitary im-
prisonment, by the cries of those who were being
tortured, and by anticipations of the noose and
the faggot, he made three attempts to commit
suicide. During the early part of his convalescence
he was allowed the luxury of a negro fellow-pri-
soner in his cell; but when he had recovered
strength this indulgence was withdrawn. Five or
six other examinations rapidly succeeded each other,
and finally, on the 11th of January, 1676, he was
* 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.