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A40887	The Portugues Asia, or, The history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan, all their battels by sea and land, sieges and other memorable actions, a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. : in three tomes / written in Spanish by Manuel de Faria y Sousa ... ; translated into English by Cap. John Stevens.; Asia Portuguesa. English	Faria e Sousa, Manuel de, 1590-1649.; Stevens, John, d. 1726.	1695 (1695)	Wing F428; ESTC R2613	684,223	1,508

Granadoes in her hands and they returned with shame 11. N. Barreto a Fidalgo 16 Years of Age killed his Father for which his Head was cut off so Justice was done where there never was any The Mercers of Goa esteemed more Honorable than the Goldsmiths would not allow them to use a sort of Umbrello with an Ornament on the top and middle of it A Goldsmith went abroad with such an Umbrello the Mercers broke it and beat him The other Goldsmiths coming to assist their Brother there ensued a Fray in which much Blood was spilt and much Plunder got though no victory for the Algna●…es or Officers robbed the Shops of those who were fighting 12. On the 11th of November appeared a Comet in the East and another on the 24th They were seen at four in the morning both under the Sign Scorpio The first extended towards the South in the form of a Palm the other toward the North and was like a Flower-pot The latter lasted till the beginning of Ianuary the other till the 20th of December 13. The first time the King of Arracam went to the City Chatigam after the Portugueses inhabited there they presented him a Bough thick set with Figs he offered it to his white Elephant so coveted by all the Eastern Princes to eat but he would not though the King prayed him to take it for the King of Ova the Mogol and his own sake But scarce did he desire him to eat it for the King of Portugal when the Elephant joyfully snatched it in his Trunk The King in a Passion caused him to be deprived of all his Ornaments as a Golden Dish on which he fed Gold Chain by which they led him and the like The Beast for Grief would not eat and the King for fear it should die was forced to restore its Furniture 14. At this time died at Bengala that Moor so famous for his Age being above 300 Years old when Nunno de Cunna took Diu which was 60 Years before this time and he seemed now but 60 Years of Age. It was reported there were others 200 Years old thereabouts but upon enquiry none appeared Only one Woman was found about 100 Years of Age and had married that same Year having before buried seven Husbands Thus much for the Year 1618 now for that of 1619 which is no less wonderful 15. Upon one of the three Hills that overlook Goa stood a large wooden Cross on which very many of the Inhabitants of that City the 23th Day of February saw the perfect Figure of a Man Crucified The Archbishop having examined the Truth of it took it down and of it made a small one two spans in length with a Crucifix of Ivory upon and a Glory of Gold round The remaining Pieces were distributed to the Churches and Persons of Quality Ten Days after the Cross was taken down Water gushed from the hole where it had been fixed in which Cloaths being dipped wrought many miraculous Cures On the Place where the Cross stood was built a Church 16. It was debated in an Assembly of the principal Clergy whether the Threads the Bramenes hang across their Shoulders were a Heathenish Superstition or only a mark of Nobility after some time it was concluded in favour of the latter as only a distinction of Honour The reason of examining this Point was because many of the Bramenes refused to embrace the Faith only for that they were obliged as soon as Christians to leave off those Threads 17. D. F. Christopher the Archbishop said the first Mass in his Cathedral at Goa which was finished this Year and is not inferior in Grandure to many of the European Churches of Fame It was dedicated to St. Catherine on whose Day that City was taken 18. There happened a great Dearth and Famine which destroyed many People In only the little Island of Bardes almost 400 died There was a wonderful Eclipse of the Sun most visible at Moçambique soon after noon the day becoming quite dark the space of two hours This caused great Admiration as did another of the Moon at Goa 19. In the Province of Peking in China it rained not for a whole Year In that of Xantung the Famin was such Men eat one another Two Women were executed for eating eleven Children In that of Nanking was a Plague of Mice Two Parts in five of the King's Palace were burnt and five Towers were blown down in the City Two Suns were seen together the one eclipsing the other A Man entred the Palace to kill the Prince In the Province of Xangsi appeared a Man cloathed in yellow with a green Cap and Fan of Feathers who said Vambie that was the King's Name does not govern he has reigned long is always asleep the Kingdom going to Ruine the People starves the Captains are slain This said he vanished and though all means were used to find him he could never be heard of 20. That there might be somewhat extraordinary in the Viceroy he died on the 10th of November of a swelling upon his Back as big as the Crown of a Hat so black and monstrous it frighted not only the ignorant but the ablest Physicians 21. The Viceroy was buried in the Church of the King 's a League down the River the usual Burial Place of those who die in that Command as his Father did who is there interred He was not of a very piercing Judgment but positive of Stature tall well shaped neither white nor swarthy Of Viceroys he was the 23th of Governors 43th the 4th of the Name and 3d of the Sirname CHAP. XVIII Of the Governour Ferdinand de Albuquerque from the Year 1619 till 1622. 1. THE first Patent of Succession being opened there was found named Ferdinand de Albuquerque a Gentleman 70 Years of Age 40 whereof he had been married and an Inhabitant of Goa and consequently well versed in the Affairs of India But having lived long at ease was become slow in Business which suited not with the pressing Occasions of that time 2. The King of Porca always ill affected to the Portugueses this Year embraced our Friendship with great Demonstrations of Sincerity and Affection 3. The Arache D. Luis who became a Christian only to gain the better Opportunity of raising new Troubles now disturbed the Peace of Iafanapatan He stirred up the People to Enthrone a Prince at Remancor and marched with 30000 Men towards our Men who were fortified in a Pagod Philip de Oliveyra had but 30 Men having sent the rest to Ceylon as fearing no Insurrection With those 30 he withstood all that number of Enemies who first attacked the Church of our Lady in which were 30 other Portugueses and then the Pagod where Oliveyra was and were at both Places repulsed with Loss Oliveyra held it out a Month till Relief came from Ceylon Andrew Coello brought Succors by Water and Luis Teyxeyra 1600 Men by Land The latter entring the Kingdom did many Actions barbarous and inhuman He

themselves with the rest and believe themselves most pure besides the Law that forbids killing a Cow 't is so great a Sin that it requires much Alms and other good acts to expiate it Oxen are not so much valued though many Princes think themselves descended from a Bull because all Men being destroyed and only Women left one of them had carnal Copulation with a Bull and brought forth a Boy who was the restorer of Men. 12. Their manner of swearing is laying a Hand upon a Sons head if the swearer has one or else upon a Cows to clear themselves when accused of any crime the party puts his Hand into boiling Butter or Oyl then 't is wrapt and sealed up in a cloth if on the third Day after it appears found he is cleared if otherwise found guilty the accuser if the party be cleared makes satisfaction with a Sum of Money They make another Tryal in the River that runs from Cochin to Cranganor where is the Pagod of the Crocodil The Brame●…es by their sorceries bring one of them to the shoar the person accused leaps upon his back if he is carryed over safe they account him innocent if devoured guilty Both these Experiments have been made use of in presence of our People of late Years 13. They have yet another manner of Tryal which is by putting the Hand into a pot full of Adders to fetch out a Ring thereby the more to provoke them If they sting the party is guilty if not clear This is used in Cranganor Mangalor and other parts of Canara A King of theirs coveting a most plentiful Wood of Coco's that belonged to a Poor Woman took it from her by force and ever after it bore none but hollow empty Coco's there are some living who are Eye witnesses of this wonder 14. They have several Fasts one called Egadezi which is kept the eleventh Day of every Moon on this Fast they Eat nothing but Fruit That called Giveraseri begins by Night in February and they neither Eat D●…ink nor Sleep in Twenty four Hours They walk round the Pagod rehearsing stories out of their Scripture If any happen to shut his Eyes overcome with sleep he washes himself as oft as it happens and continues his former exercise In the morning they offer some Money to the Idol The Fast Tirivadira belongs only to the Women That for the Dead which the kindred of the Deceased keep lasts a Year during which time they do not Eat Fish Flesh Eggs drink Wine or chew Betele 15. The Fast Masa Upasa is the most religious of them all and few account themselves so happy as to observe it He that does begins the last Day of October he washes himself puts on clean cloaths and visits t●…e Pagod of Vistnu On the first of November he goes round it One hundred and one times the devoutest One thousand and one at each turn in the nature of a Prayer repeating the name of Vistnu One hundred and one times This must be done every Day of November and the ten first of December He must Eat only Eggs and Milk not look upon Women he must think on nothing but that name and praises of it Next Year he must do the same beginning the first of December and ending the tenth of Ianuary so he must go on every Year till twelve be over and then begins again the first of November and fasts the forty Days after this he is canonized sor a Saint in such a manner that only the sight of him is forgiveness of Sins CHAP. VI. Continues the same Subject 1. IN matters of Matrimony they have several customs The Bramenes may have as many Wifes as they can maintain though they be not of their Race but the Bramene Women can have but one Husband and must not mix with the Nayres on pain of losing their quality They consult Foretune-tellers about a happy time to Marry they choose a Husband of their own race born under the same Planet and the same Day of the Moon as themselves to which purpose the times of Nativities are punctually observed The Bramen that does the duty of Priest is called Odicon or Curical he for four Days sacrifices in a Den Rice Butter Cows and such like things he lights a lamp and sets aside a portion of Rice for Garapatii and for the Epicurean Elephant that he may not disturb the Feast The Bridegroom ties about the Brides neck a thread on which hang three little pieces of Gold in honour of the three Gods this is called Tale and is the mark of a Marryed Woman Hence among the Malabars Matrimony is called Quo Fa which signifies binding if the Husband dies first the Woman throws away the thread or Tale in token of liberty 2. The Priest takes the couple by the Hands and says some Prayers then they go to feast they do not lie together till some happy Planetary Conjunction when that happens they go to the door of the Room which is half put too and therewith the Priest say some Prayers and withdraw the next Day they go to a Cauldron of Water in which are live Fish and each holding the end of a cloth draw it through like a Net the Fish taken they lay respectfully on their Heads with the right Hand if many be taken they believe they shall have many Children and the contrary 3. If any dies a Maid they cause some poor Man of the family an unheard of beastliness to deflour her though very young him they pay well for so doing and as soon as done throw stones at him till he runs out of reach Those of the family Exastri and the Kings that are not Bramenes make no Royal Marriages so their Wifes are not Queens but Concubines called Natiaras and all of them may have Gallants Therefore the Sons do not inherit but the Nephews born of Sisters Of their manner of Marrying we have spoke before 4. The Tale among the meaner sort of Women serves to tie them to one Husband and among Ladies to turn them loose to all lasciviousness Only the Bramenes have liberty to lie with all sorts of Women from the meanest to the Queen The others if they have to do with inferiors are killed if Women sould The Nayres differ not from the others in the manner of their Weddings Among the meaner sort as Tradesmen one of them puts the Tale upon the Young Woman who is thereby capacitated to follow whom she pleases or be taken up by whoever likes her Among Silver-smiths Black-smiths and Founders four Brothers or as many as there are keep one Wife between them and have particular Days assigned for each that the inheritance may not be confounded Till a Maid is licensed by the Tale she may be abroad among Men and ●…one dare presume to meddle with her 5. The Bramenss of the North do not only celebrate their own Weddings but those of Beasts and the Elements In our Age there was a great Man of that

and he sends no Embassador to them without some Servant of hers the second is Inahanda that sollicites for the Moors the third Nabuiza that lives in the same Apartment with him the fourth Navemba the fifth Nemangore the sixth Nizingoapangi the seventh Nemongoro the eight Nessani the ninth Necarunda each of them lives apart with as great state as the King and have several Revenues and Kingdoms for their expence As soon as one dies another succeeds in place and name they have power to reward and punish as well as the King sometimes he goes to them sometimes they come to him there are many Women waiting on them of whom he makes use as he pleases 11. The Principal People of Monomotapa and whereof the Emperor is are the Mocarangi not warlike nor furnished with any other Arms but Bows Arrows and Javelines they have no Religion nor Idols but acknowledge one only God and believe there is a Devil that he is wicked and they call him Muzuco They believe their Kings go to Heaven and call them Muzimos and call upon them in time of need as we on the Saints They speak of things past by tradition having no knowledge of Letters They give Ear to the Doctrine of Christianity the lame and blind they call the King 's Poor because maintained by him with great Charity and if they travel the Towns they go through are obliged to maintain and furnish them guides from one place to another A good example for Christians 12. Every Month has its Festival Days and is divided into three Weeks each of 10 Days the first Day is that of the new-New-Moon and the Festivals the fourth and fifth of each Week On these Days they put on their best Apparel the King gives publick Audience to all holding a Truncheon about three quarters of a Yard long in each hand as it were leaning upon it they who speak to him lye prostrate this lasts from Morning till Evening If he is indisposed Ningomoxa stands in his place no body can speak to him or go to Court on the 8th Day of the new-New-Moon because it is held most unlucky 13. On the Day the new-New-Moon appears the King with two Javelins runs about in his House as if he were Fighting the great Men are present at this pastime and it being ended a pot full of Indian wheat boyled whole is brought which he scatters about the Ground bidding them Eat because it is the growth of the Earth they know how to flatter for every one strives to gather most knowing that pleases him and they Eat it as savourly as if it were the greatest dainty 14. Their greatest Holy-day is the first Day of the Moon of May they call it Chuavo On this Day all the great Men which are a vast number resort to Court and there with Javelins in their Hands run about representing a Fight the sport lasts all Day then the King withdraws and is not seen in eight Days after during which time the Drums never cease beating On the last Day he orders the Nobleman he has the least affection for to be killed this is in the nature of a Sacrifice he offers to his Muzimos or Ancestors this done the Drums cease and every Man goes home The Mumbos Eat Man's flesh whereof there is a Publick Butchery Let this suffice for the Customs of this Empire for it would be endless to relate all CHAP. XVI Continues the Government of Francis Barreto in Monomotapa 1. SUch was the Country whether the Governour Francis Barreto was now going he set out from Mozambique with more Vessels than he brought and more Men Tools Camels Horses and other necessaries for War and for the work of the Mines having Sailed Ninety Leagues he went up the River Cuama called by our first discoverer De las buenas sennales he came to Sena or Fort St. Marcalis as F. Monclaros desired and repaired the Town Inaparapala which is near to another of the Moors they being always professed Enemies to the Christians began to undermine our designs as they had formerly done in India they attempted to poyson our Army and some Men and Horses began to Die and the cause being discovered by one of them they were all put to the Sword and the Chief of them torn to pieces at the mouths of Guns except one called Mahomet Iame who affirming the Blessed Virgin had appeared to him and commanded him to become a Christian by the name of Lawrence he had the favour to be strangled The discoverer was pardoned 2. Barreto sent an Embassador to the Emperor who for the more honour admitted him to his Presence not as other Embassadors were treated at this Court which is to go without Arms bare-footed on their Knees and when they come near prostrating themselves on the ground The effect of the Embassy was to desire leave to punish the King of Mongas who was in Rebellion and go on to the Mines of Butua and Manchica The first part was a piece of flattery to obtain the second because the Lands of Mongas lie between Sena and the Mines and it was necessary to make way with the Sword He consented to all and offered One hundred thousand Men Bareto accepted not of them because he would give him no share in the Honour gained in that War and thinking thereby to oblige him the more 3. He marched ten Days with Twenty three Horse and Five hundred and sixty Musquetiers enduring much by Hunger and Thirst for the most part along the River Zambeze over whose most rapid stream hang pieces of the high Mountain Lupata ninety Leagues distant from the Ethiopian Sea At the end of this tedious march they began to discover part of the Enemy and soon after saw the-Mountains and Valleys covered with Arm'd Men the Governor was not daunted seeing it was hard to discover the end of that multitude he drew up and gave the Van to Vasco Fernando Homem he had the Rear and between the bodies was the baggage and some Field pieces when they came to charge he removed the Canon to the Front and Flanks the two unequal bodies advanced the Enemy in the sorm of a half-Moon before they engaged an old Woman advanced and scattered some Powder towards our Men having perswaded the Enemy she was a notorious Witch that that Powder alone would gain the Victory 4. Barreto understanding the superstition having seen t●…e like in India ordered a Gunner to level a ●…iece at her which was so well performed the old Woman was torn to pieces the Cafres were astonished believing her immortal Barreto rewarded the Gunner with a Gold Chain the Enemy advance without order either through ignorance or relying on their multitude and clouds of Arrows and Darts begin to fly but our Musquetiers killing them by Hundreds they turned their backs many were killed in the pursuit and then our Men ordered to halt the Governor marches to the City Mongas and meets another multitude like the former which in

Estate so that some have above 1000 this sacrifice is to obtain Riches for themselves revenge and destruction of their Enemies Many have in their Houses familiar Devils which they call Cutichates every Day they offer something to them they get by them and some have 300 of them They make them enter into the bodies of those they would be revenged of whereof they make great advantage for many pay to be delivered from them By the help of them converted into the shapes of Beasts they hurt People and infest whole Towns There are those living who have seen the Town of Cranganor burnt by this means At Pudiangale near Calicut a Woman had one of these and saw it in the shape of a Cock a Monkey and a little black Boy with a Truncheon in his Hand these are not punished in Malabar but their Kings make use of them in danger The very Heathens observe that all those who follow that course live and die miserably 3. In sickness they consult Wizards not Doctors they say a Devil causes the Disease and bringing him into the Sick Man make him tell the Reason of molesting him then they promise him something to go out again and he does it They think the Small-pox is Cured with an offering to Patracale who they affirm causes them The Gout they believe is caused by ●…ive she Devils like Sows tothem they offer Food fit for such Beasts that they may transfer the Disease to their Enemies 4. They adore and offer Sacrifice to venemous Snakes that they may not hurt with their Poyson The Lawyers on the first Day of September do the same to their Books 5. Their Baths are used rather to cleanse the Soul than the Body they know the ten Commandments but think not themselves bound by them It is a great Sin if a Nobleman is touched by one that is not such though he be never so great by learning by the Sword or by Virtue And even Riches there cannot prevail to gain this point The King of Travanco●… being resolved to become a Bramene though not of that descent was told he must first be bore of a Cow be made one of Gold so big that going into it he was born out of it he offered it to the Bramenes with a great Snm of Gold and obtained the dignity but not Hereditary 6. They purge themselves from venial Sins by putting their Heads under Water one of these is a Nobleman touching a Plebean and to prevent it the latter cries as he goes Po po po that is have a care another is touch●…ng the Dead or their Friends within fifteen Days another to touch Meat with the right Hand when they Eat another to touch them so touched or their Houses or Wells to touch another with the right ●…and whilst Eating to touch a grain of Rice fallen as it is taken up to touch a drop of Water disturbed by one not so noble Mortal Sins are not forgiven so he who commits them remains subject to Death and the Lord of the Earth as long as he lives The mortal are these To use Pots touched by Men de●…led to Eat Rice before Purification to Eat it boyled by a Man of base race to have to do with a Woman of that sort to Eat Rice into which is fallen the least grain out of another Man's plate 7. Their bathing is thus They believe the stone of the bath is the God Brama the lips of it Vistnu and all together Ixora When they go in their nakedness is covered with a rag or leafe in the Water they write Om with one Finger and throw Water over it with three believing the three Gods bathed there Then dividing the Water dip their Heads and after cast up some towards eight parts of the World offering Water to the eight Guardians thereof They call upon Siri Pagod and wash their Faces three times they also cast Water up towards Heaven offering it to the Sun then wash their Hands and Feet On the Palm of their left Hand they put Ashes of Cows-dung and sprinkle it and believe the left Hand is the Earth the right Heaven and and the Palm the place of Generation laying one Hand upon the other and shutting them close they say Let the end of the World come 8. This they do in imitation of Ixoras's Egg and think the upper Hand when opened represents Heaven the lower the Earth with the right Thumb they write upon the Ashes Iara that is the Fight that was in the Egg between Fire and Water Then that all their limbs may be sanctified they touch with their Hand the principal parts of the Body from the privy parts to the crown of the Head and the Ears Elbows Knees and great Toes They hold their hands as if they gave something to two Spirits who they say attend on us writing our good works on the right Hand and the bad on the left the same they do to the eight Guards of the World turning about The last ceremony is to rub the Forehead Shoulders and Breast with Ashes taken with two Fingers and the Thumb of the right Hand in honour of the three Gods 9. The bathing called Titan performed in the Sea is very solemn before it they perform a ceremony in which they offer 〈◊〉 a sort of flowers prostrating themselves three times on the ground once in reverence to the Pagod once to the Sun and once to the Sea The chief places they resort to for this bathing are three on the Coast of Travancor viz. Baçora Rettor●… and 〈◊〉 the Days appointed are the first of each Moon chiefly those of Iuly and Ianuary but if the New-Moon fall on a Wednesday it adds so much to this devotion that the Mountains and Valleys can scarce contain the multitude of Pilgrims that resort from above Five hundred Leagues distance of all Sexes Ages and conditions and all a foot Above all others the Ganga of Bengala is held in veneration for this washing 10. Ashes of Cows dung is their chief Purgation powdering their Forehead Shoulders and Breast with it the more of it their Iogues or Religious Men have upon them the more Holy they are reputed they carry it in purses to recompence the Alms that are given them The Reason they esteem this Powder is this Ixora was sanctified by the Ashes of Gevelinga Vistnu desiring to partake of this blessing and impart it to Mankind carryed a Cow to 〈◊〉 where she got a mouthful of that dust Vistnu took her dung in which was that Ashes she had Eaten and burning it made more Ashes which he shared with Man 11. They also dissolve the same dung and sprinkle their Houses and Highways with it to purify them with this is the way dayly sprinkled through which Zam●…ri goes from his Pallace to the Pagod and his Table cloth and a Gold dish on which the Meat is brought As soon as they see a Cow piss they run and catch it in their hands drink part and sprinkle

transparent From letters they proceed to composition such as are approved of are Printed every 3 Years and learners study them There are no Universities every Master reaches all that is requisite for a man to know as well in learning as manners and behaviour The Disciples of quality never go any where without the Master there are many Schools for the common sort but no Master can take more Schollars than he can teach himself for he is not to trust to another Their Days of recreation are the first 15 in the Year and some others but few in the 5th and 7th Moon The Masters that serve in great Houses Eat at their patrons Table 2. They have large and stately Halls richly adorned where they examine students whereof there are great numbers in every City and Town but chiefly in the Metropolis of Provinces where they take their Degrees These buildings for the most part are all of the same form some bigger than others but all large the greatest of our Pallaces is not equal to the least of them in every one is an infinite number of little rooms where such as are to be examined compose each by himself with a Soldier to attend him that the more learned may not help the ignorant The Hall of Quantung which is the least has 6000 of these Cels and the number of students is greater 3. There attend all the time of the examination Prefidents Magistrates Examiners Clerks and all sorts of Trades and all that are there are maintained ind yet and lodging the whole time upon the publick charge The Order and disposition of all things is much to be admired formerly Gentlemen were not admitted to take any degree because not imployed in the Government but they perceiving that only the learned rose obtained though with difficulty to be admitted to both such as are any way infamous cannot take a degree The degrees are 3 answerable to o●… of Batchelor Master of Arts and Doctor the Chancellor goes about the Town●…●…d Cities to examine the first the second is done in the Metropolis of each Province once in 3 Years in each of these Acts there are above 7000 students and above 1500 take the degree of Master of Arts. The Doctors are only made at Court on a sudden a Bricklayer or Taylor is set up in state the marks of this dignity are given them and are a Cap Gown Tassels and Boots all put on with much Ceremony The King defrays the whole charge and every one that takes this degree stands him in 1000 Ducats 4. Of those that go to the Court to take their degree 350 are admitted to that of Doctors the marks of that honour except the Boots which are the same in all differ very much in the value besides those mentioned they have a girdle they wear them all in the employments they get and the last is still richer as they ●…e preferred There is another examination at which the King used to be present now a Colao supplies his place after it they go to salute the King who is on his Throne and gives with his own hand a premium to each of the three first presented the first of the 3 is superior over all the others and has a particular name as has the second and third this is so great an honour that soon after the whole Kingdom knows them by those names and their degree of honour is equal to our Dukes Out of the 350 are chosen 25 who have Pallaces assigned them and are subject to the Colao that is president of the great College of him they learn the speculative part of Government Hence they are preferred to employments superior to Viceroy ships only such as are of that College are admitted to the supream dignity of Colao when one of these 25 Doctors is made a Mandarin especially if he be one of the three presented by the King there is erected to him in his own Country a triumphal Arch all of Marble and very stately with his name on the front 5. Nothing can be said distinctly of their Sciences because in reality they know no distinction Three of their Kings were the masters of the ●…oral and Speculative learning under my●…ical numbers and Symbols they were also the Legislators Above 1000 Years before Christ two other Kings composed the book called Yequim being a comment upon those Symbols then followed Philosophers like the Stoicks The most famous Confucius composed 9 Books which are esteem'd chiefly 5 of them like our Holy writ many Doctors comment upon them he flourished 500 Years before Christ and aimed at the Reformation of Mankind and is held in veneration as the universal Master and a Saint with Temples dedicated to him The Government of the City where he was born remains in his Family the immediate successor has the title revenue and state of a Duke they are all as soon as born held in great veneration 6. The 5 principal Books are Yequim that treats of natural Philosophy fate and predictions the second Xoquim of Chronology the third Xiquim Poetically discourses of the Nature of things and Human Affections the fourth Liquin of Divine Worship the fifth Chun●…icu Examples of good and bad Kings There are 4 other Books of the same Author and another called Mencu that treat of Physicks and Morals out of these is taken a subject for the compositions of such as are examined there are also 9 Books of Comments upon those but only one of them is established by Law 7. They consider 3 principal objects in the World Heaven Earth and Man and accordingly their learning is divided into 3 Sciences that of Heaven treats of the Original of all things that of the Earth of its position product and variety that of Man of his manners and affections to whom they ascribe 5 Moral Virtues Piety Justice Policy Prudence and Felicity respecting 5 Orders of Persons in the Common-wealth Father and Son Husband and Wife King and Subject elder and younger Brother and friends among themselves 8. They have rules of Grammar understand Rhetorick are well skilled in Arithmetick and have knowledge of Geometry but know nothing of Dialectica and Algebra Astronomy is a profession only allowed to two Persons to study one in each Court and they leave it hereditary to their Sons they reckon 5 Elements Water Metal Fire Wood and Earth and appropiate to them as many Planets Mercury Venus Mars Iupiter Saturn The Zodiack they divide into 24 Signs the Year into 12 Moons and 354 Days making a Bissextile every three Years of 13 Moons and 383 Days it begins with the next Moon to the 5th of February Their Musick consists all of one sound the Bonzes sing after the manner of our plain Song their Instruments are of several sorts for the most part noisy and some like ours such as are played upon strings have them of Silk 9. Poetry was always much esteemed in China all that was published of this sort used to be sent to the

Inherit but the Nephews born of Sisters by reason of the ill conceit they have of the Mothers believing this way they secure the Royal Descent The Princesses that bring forth these Heirs get them in this manner The Princess is Married to a Neighbouring Prince who leaves her untouched a Nayre of the Family of Naburii destined for this Employ gets her Maidenhead and then departs never more to be seen in the Country upon pain of Death The Princess afterwards chooses others among the Naburiis of whom she makes use till she has Conceived She has liberty to choose among them all but none of them can court her upon pain of Death The Nayres are very poor few of them can maintain a Wife and he that can need not fear another corrupting of her For this Reason three or four of them joyn to maintain a Woman and that is their manner of Marriage When one goes to the Wife he leaves his Buckler at the Door which is a sign one is within and if another comes he must stay The Kingdom of Cochin was subject to this Empire though without paying Tribute and made free by the Portugueses in requital for the fidelity of the King Uniramacoul who Reigned when we first discovered India and exposed himself to utter danger of being ruined rather than deliver up the Portugueses to Zamori King Emanuel sent him a Crown of Gold by the Vice-Roy D. Francis de Almeyda which he received submitting himself as a Subject to Portugal without any other acknowledgment but is yearly presented with two pieces of Gold the one a Portugues being a Coin worth 18 Ducats on the 1st of Ianuary the other on the day of the Epiphany is a Cup worth 640 Thus much of the Empire of Malabar 7. As to Meliapor for what relates to the Apostle It is the received Opinion he was killed at Antenodur a Mountain a League distant from the Town where he had two Caves whither he retired to Pray The nearest now belongs to the Jesuits the other is the Church of our Lady of the Mount He being one day at Prayer in the former opposite to a Clift that gave Light to it one of the Bramens who was watching thrust a Lance through that Hole in such manner that a piece of it remaining in his Body he went to the other Cave and there died embracing a Stone on which a Cross was carved Hence his Disciples removed and Buried him in his Church where he was found by Emanuel de Faria or Frias and the Priest Antony Penteado sent thither on purpose by King Emanuel 8. In the Year 1547 being about to repair that Oratory where the Apostle died digging they found a Stone which seems to be the same he held then It is about a yard long and three quarters wide the Colour grey with some red spots In the middle of it is carved a Portal round at the Top with Letters between the two Borders within two Banisters rather than Pillars being turned on which are two twisted Figures like Dogs sitting from whose Necks rises a graceful Arch of five Borders and between every two are knots like Beads In the hollow of this Door is a Pedestal of two Steps from the uppermost of which rises a Branch on each side and over them as it were in the Air is a Cross the ends of it like to that of the Military Order of Alcantara as the History relates but the Print shews them like three half Moons the Convex sides outwards and the Points meeting as commonly we see in many ancient Churches in Europe Over all is a Dove flying as it were descending to touch the Cross with its Beak There are ancient Pillars in the East with Doves after this manner One preserved in the Pagod of Negapatan has carved on it a Cock a Rope and a Candle There is a Tradition it came of it self to those parts by Sea with a Candle burning 9. The Chappel being repaired or beautified in the Year 1551 the Stone was solemnly set up in it and at the time the Priest pronounced those words of the Gospel Missus est Angelus Gabriel c. it began to change colour and became black and shining then sweating turned to its own colour plainly discovering the spots of Blood which before were obscure The Letters about it could not be understood till the Year 1561 a Learned Bramen said they were 36 Hieroglyphicks every one containing a Sentence and were to this effect In the time of the Son of Sagad the Gentile who Reigned 30 years came upon Earth one only GOD and was Incarnate in the Womb of a Virgin He abolished the Law of the Jews whom he punished for the Sins of Men after he had been in the World 33 years and taught Twelve Servants the Truth he preached A King of Three Crowns Cheralacone Indalacone Cuspandiad and King Alexander of the Kingdom Ertinabarad with Catherine his Daughter and many Virgins and six Families voluntarily followed the Law of Thomas because it was the Law of Truth and he gave them the Sign of the Cross to adore Going up to the place of Antenodur a Bramen run him through with a Lance and he embraced this Cross which was stained with his Blood and his Disciples carried him to Maiale and Buried him in his Church with the Lance in his Body And because We the above-named Kings saw this we carved these Letters here Hence besides the Story is gathered That Maiale was the ancient Name of the City Meliapor now called St. Thomas This Stone afterwards sweated sometimes Till the Year 1561 it was a good Omen since then a bad one 10. In the time of the Priest Penteado were also found three Brass Plates about a Span long and half as broad in shape like a Scutcheon on the top a Ring On the one side was a Cross and Peacock the ancient Arms of Meliapor on the other Characters which were explained by another Learned Bramen The first part was Titles of the King Boca Raja Son of Campula Raja and Grandson of Atela Raja He begins confessing One God without beginning Maker of all things And says of himself That he is as Great a Gentleman as the Beast Chigsan and as one of the five Kings who conquered 99 That he is as strong as one of the eight Elephants that the World stands upon and that he Conquered the Kingdoms of Otia Tulcan and Canara cutting his Enemies to pieces with his Sword The other Plates contained Grants of Lands to St. Thomas directed to himself and calling him Abidarra Modeliar Whence may be gathered these Princes Reigned at the time that Christ suffered One of them begins thus After the Year 1259 in the first Year called Icarrana Rachan on the 12th day of the New Moon of the good Year I give in Alms to the Saint Abidarra Modeliar c. Thus Another This is a Token of Alms-deeds to purchase Paradice and all Kings that perform them shall obtain