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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

Justice tho' they did that of Men. 8. Ruy de Melo who was deprived of his Command of Moçambique by the Judge Fr. de Fonseca Pinto went to Goa and being tryed was cleared of all the Crimes laid to his Charge and ordered to be restored to his Post Iames de Cunna Castellobranco Judge of the Criminal Court was sent to restore him The Viceroy charged Melo to forget past Grudges to take care of the Peace and Preservation of that Place and not to offend Guerra or Pinto and the more to secure the latter continued his former Commission during his stay in those Parts The same Charge he gave to the Judge Cunna 9. Melo and Cunna sailed from Goa in two Vessels and Cunna arrived first at Moçambique in May. As soon as he came he promised to reconcile him to Melo and in return desired him to secure Pinto contrary to the Viceroy's Orders which made their Power equal Pinto coming with above 100000 Crowns he had gathered by Extortion was put into Irons Being a Prisoner in the Fort he made use of his Rhetorick telling Guerra how much he was beholden to him and offering if he would release him and secure Cunna to give him sufficient Certificates to save his Reputation and clear him of all Crimes at Goa This he said because Guerra's guilt was no less than his own 10. Guerra overcome with these Promises releases Pinto and sending for Cunna on pretence of Business detains him Prisoner He seeing himself in the Power of his two greatest Enemies whose design was to stay him at Moçambique giving 18000 Ducats security got loose and escaped to Mombaça where Ruy de Melo was detained They two with Simon de Melo Pereyra Commander of that Fort and Emanuel Freyre de Andrade gave Sentence of Death against Guerra as a Rebel Melo and Cunna Embarque for Moçambique mean while Pinto to secure his Gold was sailing for Goa Guerra was advised not to stay the coming of his Enemies yet he did and receiving Melo at the Gate deliver'd him the Keys Melo or his Son for in this particular Relations vary embracing Guerra stabbed him then spurning and reviling caused him to be apprehended A few Days after he was condemned to be hanged and tho' he offered to fit out a compleat Galleon for the King's Service to purchase Life was executed 11. The Chineses provoked by the Insolencies of the Portugueses at Macao were drawing together Forces to expel them The Mandarines of the Province of Quantung sent to them first to reproach them of their Crimes ordering that either they should for the future resolve to live honestly or immediately withdraw from thence with their Wives and Children The Portugu●…ses pleaded innocence excused their Faults and promised for the time to come to observe their Laws 12. D. Garcia de Silva of whom mention was made before was still at Goa in order to go Ambassador to Persia. The Reason of his stay was because that King continued to commit Hostilities having taken from us Bandel of Comoram in Arabia Yet now he resolved to send an Ambassador to Spain and chose for this Employ Robert Sherley an Englishman 13. The Persian sending an Ambassador to Spain it was thought the Spaniard might safely go to him D. Garcia began to make ready but his long stay at Goa having been chargeable he demanded 30000 Ducats of the Viceroy who was forced to give him the best part of that Sum but this being in the dead of Winter his Voyage was put off till Spring and I cannot find any farther account what became of him or his Embassy 14. The Viceroy to gratifie the King of Macassa for his kind Entertainment of Gonçalo Rodrigues de Sousa answered his Letter and sent him a Present by Augustin Labato who sailed from Goa on the 3d of October with 2 Galliots On the way he took two Vessels of Achem and being well received and dispatched by the King of Macassa he sailed then loaden with Provisions for Ternate He fought two Dutch Vessels landed the Provisions returned again and brought more from Macassa then going to Manila winter'd there 15. The Portugueses sailing from Malaca to Manila found there was a Days difference between those two Places that is they who go from Malaca think they arrive at Manila on a Sunday and it is Monday and the contrary from Manila to Malaca The reason is that those who sail to the Eastward at every 15 Degrees have the Sun rising an hour sooner and they who to the Westward an hour later From Portugal to India 7 hours are gained the rest from Goa to Manila which added to those lost between Manila and Spain make up the difference of a whole Day 16. Our Viceroy earnestly desired to hear of the many Portugueses were said to be cast away on the Island of Madagascar since the Discovery of India as also to plant the Christian Faith there and settle a friendly Correspondence with the Kings thereof to the Exclusion of the Hollanders out of those Ports To this effect he sent thither several Vessels during his Government I have thought fit not to divide the Relation of those Expeditions and therefore place them together in the following Chapters CHAP. XIII Particular Discoveries made in the Island of Madagascar or St. Lawrence by order of the Viceroy D. Hierome de Azevedo 1. THE Viceroy in pursuance of the King's Orders for discovery of the Affairs of the Island Madagascar or St. Lawrence fitted out a Caravel for that Expedition under the Command of Paul Rodriguez de Costa with Soldiers two Jesuits and Interpreters 2. They set sail from Goa at the end of Ianuary and reached that Island about the middle of April The circumference of it is about 600 leagues the length 260 and lies north-north-North-North-East and South-South-West the breadth where most is not above 80 leagues on the South part and less Northward for there it ends in a Point which bears the Name of St. Ignatius and is about ●…5 leagues in length from East to West It is therefore divided into 3 parts the first made by an imaginary Line drawn from East to West at Cape St. Andrew forms the North part The other two are divided by a ridge o●… Mountains running from the said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the middle of the Island to Cape 〈◊〉 ●…omanus 3. I will not name the Kingdoms it contains because they are too many and confused It is very Populous the Inhabitants living in Cities and Town of different extent and grandeur well watered and diversified with Mountains Valleys Bays and Ports The Names of Madagascar and St. Lawrence are given it by Strangers the Natives having no general Name thereof There is no certainty of the first Planting of it The generality of the Natives called Buques have no Religion and consequently no Priests or Churches Any body circumcises the Children between 5 and 7 Years of Age. 4. They are not all of a Colour some quite Black with curled Hair some

Guenga and falls into the Sea near the Mouth of Ganges between the Cities Angali and Pisolta in about 22 degrees of Latitude The River Bate has his Springs in the Mount Gate and falls into the Sea by Bombaim parting the Kingdoms of Guzarata and Decan From the City Cambaya to the Mouth of this River are 70 Leagues From Chaul South of it to the River Aliga the southern extent of Decan 75 Leagues with these Towns Bandor Dabul Debetele Cintapori Coropatan Banda Chapora and Goa our Metropolis and Archiepiscopal See in India The third district begins where Canara parts from Decan and ends in Cape Comori and contains above 140 Leagues From this River to Mount Delli is about 46 Leagues with these Towns Onor Baticale Barcalor Baranor and others of the Province Canara subject to the King of Bisnaga Below this to Cape Comori are 93 Leagues and is called Malabar divided into three Kingdoms which own no Superior The Kingdom of Cananor has 20 Leagues of the Coast in which are these Towns Cota Coulam Nilichilam Marabia ●…olepatam Cananor the Metropolis in the Latitude of 12 degrees Tremapatan Cheba Maim and Purepatan Here begins the Kingdom of Calicut and runs 27 Leagues and has these Towns Calicut the Metropolis in about 11 degrees 70 minutes of Latitude Coulete Chale Parangale and Tanor the head of a Kingdom subject to the Zamori or Emperour of Calicut and Chatua the last Bound of this Empire Next is the little Kingdom of Cranganor which borders on that of Cochin then that of Coulan and lastly Travancor subject to Narsinga Near Travancor is the Famous Cape Comori the southermost Inland of this Province of Indostan or India within Ganges and 7 degrees and half of North Latitude where ends the Coast of Malabar and the fourth of the nine districts I now divide the Coast of Asia into From Cape Comori in the West to Cape Cincapura in the East which is the Southermost Land of the Aurea Chersonesus or Malaca are 400 Leagues and within this interval is contained the great Bay of Bengala called by some Sinus Gangeticus because the River Ganges after watering the Country of Bengala falls into this Bay about the Latitude of 23 Degrees This River is wonderful for the abundance of water it carries and esteemed Holy by the Neighbouring People who imagining it conduces to their Salvation when given over are carried and die with their Feet in its water which brings the King a great Revenue for none must wash there without paying a certain Duty Though this River has many Mouths the two most remarkable are called Satigan to the West and Chatigan to the East near 100 Leagues distant from each other and here will end the fifth of the nine Districts This may be subdivided into three parts The first the Kingdom of Bisnaga contains 200 Leagues and these Towns Tarancurii Manapar Vaipar Trechendur Caligrande Charcacale Tucucurii Benbar Calicare Beadala Manancort and Cannameira whence takes name that Cape that stretches out there in 10 degrees of North Latitude then Negapatan Hahor Triminapatan Tragambar Trimenava Colororam Puducheira Calapate Connumeira Sadrapatan and Meliapor now called St. Thomas because that Apostles Body was found there From St. Thomas to Palicata are 9 Leagues then go on Chiricole Aremogan Caleturo Caleciro Pentipolii where ends the Kingdom of Bisnagur and begins that of Orixa the second part of this District and contains about 120 Leagues to Cape Palmeiras with these Towns Penacote Calingan Vizipatan Bimilepatan Narsingapatan Puacatan Caregare and others Here begins the third part which is the Kingdom of Bengala and extends above 100 Leagues The sixth District of the nine begins at the East Mouth of Ganges or Chatigan and ends at Cape Cincapura in little more than one degree of North Latitude This Coast contains about 380 Leagues to Cape Negraes in the Latitude of 16 degrees 100 Leagues and these Towns Sore Satatolu Arracam Metropolis of the Kingdom so called and Dunadiva upon the Point Hence to Tavay in the Latitude of 13 Degrees 16 Leagues This is the bounds of the Kingdom of Pegu. From Tavay to Cincapura 220 the chief Towns along this Coast are Martaban Lugor Tanacerin Lungar Pedam Queda Solongor and Malaca Head of the Kingdom At Cincapura begins the seventh District and ends at the great River of Siam which falls into the Sea in the Latitude of 14 Degrees and has its rise in the Lake Chiammay called by the Natives Menam that is source of waters upon this Coast are the Towns Pam Ponciam Calantaon Patane Ligor Cuii Perperii and Bamplacot on the Mouth of the River The eighth District contains these Kingdoms that of Cambodia through which runs the River Mecon whose Springs are in China that of Champa or Tsiompa whence comes the true Aloes on this borders the Kingdom of Cochinchina then that of China divided into fifteen Provinces or Governments each of which is a great Kingdom those on the Sea are Quantung Fokien Chekiang where ends the eighth District The ninth begins with the Province Nanking and continues that of Xantung and Pecheli running to the farthest discovered Land of the Coast of Tartary I shall speak of the Islands that lie along this tract as they are discovered but the Names of the chief are these the Maldivy Islands Ceylon Sumatra Iava Borneo Banda Timori Celebes the Moluccoes Mindanao Luconia and Iapan Thus much of the Coast of Asia let us now see by whom inhabited and what it produces 2. Though there be many and very different manners of Worship in Asia as well as sundry Nations the chief Religions there may be reduced to these four Heads the Christian Jewish Mahometan and Gentile The first two for the most part under the slavery of the latter With the two latter the Portugues waged War their Power is thus divided All that tract from the River Cintacora opposite to Anchediva towards the North and West is subject to Mahometans thence Eastward to Pagans except the Kingdom of Malaca part of Sumatra and some parts of Iava and the Molucco Islands held by the Moors In that tract which is governed by these are the following Sovereign Princes The Kings of Aden Xael and Fartaque who have many Ports of great Trade and their Subjects the Arabs are couragious and warlike Next the King of Ormuz greater than the other three together and then he of Cambaya equal to Xerxes Darius or Porus in grandeur and warlike power From Chaul to Cin●…atora belonged to Nizamaluco and Hidalcan two powerful Princes not inferiour to great Kings who maintained great Armies composed of sundry warlike Nations well armed The Moors of Sumatra Malaca and the Moluccoes were well disciplin'd and much better stor'd with Artillery than we that attacked them The Heathens were the Kings of Bisnagar Orixa Bengala Pegu Siam and China all but chiefly the last so Powerful it is not to be expressed and if related scarce credible Siam extends above

takes the Field he has in a readiness almost 300000 Men 10000 Elephants and other Beasts of burthen 6. About this time Fernan Perez de Andrade sent by the King to several discoveries sailing towards the Bay of Bengala arrived at Pacem the Metropolis of one of the Kingdoms of Sumatra where he found Portugueses trading and was well received of that King Here he lost his biggest Ship burnt by a Candle carelessly set up and was thereby obliged to return to Malaca sending away Iohn Coello in a Ship of Bengala to expect him there with what Intelligence he could get till he returned from Malaca Hence Coello set out with fresh Instructions for China and met with furious Storms and other Dangers On the Coast of Champa taking in fresh Water had like to cost him his Life At Patane he established Peace and Commerce with the Governour the same at other places and thus spent the Winter without reaching China He returned to Malaca and refitted himsel●… for his Voyage to which he now sets out with eight Ships 7. The Empire of China is the most Eastern part of Asia as Spain the most Western of Europe Opposite to it is the Island Hainan as that of Cadiz to Spain It is almost as big as all Europe Divided from Tartary by a wonderful Wall running from East to West above 200 Leagues and ends at a vast Mountain that like a Promontory is washed by the Eastern Sea This large Empire is divided into fifteen Provinces or Governments Along the Coast Quantung Fokien Chekiang Nanking Xantung Leaotung The inland Queicheu Iunnan Quangsi Suchuen Huquang Xensi Kiangsi Honan and Xansi in which are 244 Cities Its Riches are prodigious its Government to be admired above all others They say they have two Eyes Europe one and all the rest of the World is blind They had Printing and Cannon long before us The City Quantung which is the Chief on the Coast is remarkable for its Greatness Strength of its Wall and resort of Strangers most Merchants 8. Fernan Perez arriving here after some dangers and difficulties had a conference with the th●…ee Governours of this City and sent to them one Thomas Perez with an Embassy and Present from our King to theirs to be sent forward to him He setled a Peace with that City and traded in it and the neighbouring Parts and then sailed for Malaca having received advice of the dangerous condition it was in by reason of the War with the King of Bintam and the Discord between the Portugueses 9. Fernan Perez loaded with Riches Ammunition and good Success in China was no less welcome at Malaca than D. Alexius de Meneses had been not long before What followed shall be seen hereafter Now let us turn to behold Iames Lopez de Sequeyra newly possess'd of the Government Lope Soarez de Albergaria was the third Governour He was a comly Man very red hair he is pictured with crimson Breeches and Doublet and black Coat lined with the same his Armour white adorned with Gold CHAP. III. From the Year 1518 tell the Year 1520 ending the Government of Lope Soarez de Albergaria and beginning that of James Lopez de Sequeira King Emanuel still reigning 1. ABout the end of March sailed from Lisb●… 〈◊〉 Ships bound for India with 1500 fighting Men all under the command of Iames Lopez de Sequeyra to whom the King gave the Government of India as a reward of his good Service in Africk his discovery of Malaca and worthy Qualities At the Cape of Good Hope one Ship was in danger of perishing by means of a great Fish which running against her stuck the length of two spans of a long Beak it has into her side this was afterwards found to be the Fish called the Needle Lope Soarez presently resigned the Government to Iames Lopez and set Sail for Portugal with nine Ships Sequeyra began to act D. Alonso de Meneses was sent against Baticala because it refused to pay Iohn Gomez went for Maldivia where he was to command and build a Fort. These things dispatched at Cochin Iames Lopez went away to Goa whence he dispatched others Anthony de Saldana to the Coast of Arabia and Simon de Andrade to China 2. The King of Bintam who had treacherously concluded a Peace only that D. Alexius Meneses and Fernan Perez might depart for Cochin as soon as they were gone attacked Malaca with 1500 Men and many Elephants and with 60 Vessels by Sea In the City were only 200 many sick and most unprovided But this surprize cured many of their Feavers and all Men running to oppose the danger on both sides there was a sharp engagement for the space of three hours with great loss to the Enemy and some on our side Twenty days the King lay before the Town and then retired having lost 330 Men of ours 18 were killed Then he lay to hinder the bringing of Provisions till the Governour sent relief and the Portugueses perceiving the damage they received from the Fort of Muar whence Sansotea Raja made inroads they resolved to gain it and accordingly gave the assault and after a vigorous resistance entered having killed most of the Defendants which were 800 Moors and then burnt it after securing the spoil in which were 300 Cannons some of Brass Thus Malaca was for a long time delivered of a dangerous Enemy 3. The King of Bintam still persisting in his resolution of taking Malaca the Inhabitants were reduced to great extremity having but few Men many of them sick and their Commander Alfonso Lopez ready to die He delivered the City from this last danger by resigning his command to Garcia de Sa who was newly arrived with 60 Men. Nothing of note happened at this time only that Iames Pacheco going with two Ships in search of the Island of Gold was lost and most of his Men. 4. Now arrived at Malaca Anthony Correa who came from the City Martavan where he had been concluding a Peace with the King of Pegu at the swearing of the Peace assisted with the King's Ministers the Priests of both Nations Catholick and Gentiles The Heathen was called the Great Raulim who after the Capitulations made in the Golden Mine as is the Custom of those People were publickly read began to read in a Book and then taking some yellow Paper a colour dedicated to their holy uses with some sweet Leaves of Trees whereon were certain Characters set Fire to it all and then taking the Hands of the King's Minister and holding them over the ashes said some words which rendred the Oath inviolable Anthony Correa to answer this Solemnity ordered his Priest to put on a Surplice and bring his Breviary which was so tottered and torn that it was scandalous those Heathens should see how little respect was paid to our sacred Books Correa observing this ordered to be brought instead of it a Book of Church-Musick which was more creditable being bigger and better bound and opening