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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-East and south-south-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

no Towns but wander with their Cattle like the Hords of Arabs some carry Stakes and Mats to make a sort of Tents they use no Tillage and offered our Men a Cake that seemed to be made of Meal of Roots mixed with Cow-Dung they eat Flesh but almost raw just shewed to the Fire which is made by rubbing Sticks together their choicest Food is the Guts and Tripes the Filth only squeezed out their Weapons are Darts and Bows no sign of Religion was discovered among them But it was observed that on Midsummer or St. Iohn Baptist's Day they appeared crowned with Garlands of sweet Herbs and Flowers 12. The Soil is fruitful free from Stones produces all sorts of Herbs Plants sweet Flowers and variety of Trees It is watered by great Rivers and many Springs The Spring begins in November Summer and Winter in these Parts as also in India are not caused by the Sun coming near or going from the Zenith as in Europe but by the Winds It is Winter when it rains and then the Sun is in his greatest Altitude when in his greatest Declination it rains not and then it is Summer Winter begins about the end of May when the West Wind reigns which brings great Rain and lasts till September during which time all Navigation ceases From September till May the North East Winds blow which keep a serene Sky and this is the Summer when all put to Sea Let us return to the description of that Country and our Men there 13. There is an infinite number of wild Beasts and those very large as Deer Wolves Sea-Horses Bufaloes wild Boars Monkeys Tigers and Elephants and some Rabbets not unlike our Ferrets They have abundance of wild Turkeys Geese Pigeons Turtles and Partridges which last build their Nests hanging on Branches of Trees Thus much of the People and Country about the Cape of Good Hope There lived our Shipwreck'd Portugueses and had erected a sort of Church where Mass was said and there were frequent Sermons five Priests being in that Company 14. The Ships being built in stead of Tar they made use of Benjamin and Frankincense and wanting Oyl to dissolve them supplied it with that of Sea-Wolves Before their departure they erected a Cross on the top of a Mountain with an Inscription signifying their Misfortune The Vessels were launched the Men and Goods shipped one Party designing for Portugal the other for India The former after some days fruitless labour were almost in the same place they set out from and in that condition were taken up by Antony de Sousa Carvallo in that Ship which as was before said afterwards perished 15. D. Nunno Alvarez Pereyra was Commander of Moçambique and died this Year D. Philipa Christian was Emperor of Monomotapa with whom we were in league A Cafre called Capranzirle rebelled against him who falling upon a Body of our Men as they marched to Tete slew 300 Portugueses the chief cause whereof was a Dispute between our Captains about Superiority All had been lost but for Christopher de Brito Vasconelos who put a stop to the Current of the Victorious Enemy Iames de Sousa Meneses commanded Moçambique at that time in the Place of Pereyra Soon after it was known the Cafre died of a Musket Shot he had received and a Brother of the Emperor but 13 Years of Age and a Christian baptized by the Dominicans by the Name of Dominick was proclaimed King 16. About the end of this Year a great Danish Ship entred the Port of Coulam Emanuel de Camara Noronna Admiral of the Canara Coast went to meet her with a Galley and eight other Vessels she fled he gave her chace and coming up after a sharp Dispute fired and then took her what remained of her was carried to Coulam 17. In April 1631 D. Blas de Castro who commanded 12 Sail at Negapatam took a Dutch Ship and soon after in a Storm lost half his Ships and about 100 Portugueses who got ashore were left in slavery The excessive Covetousness of the Portugueses keeping the Prices of Spice so high moved our European Enemies to seek it at a cheaper Rate in India and their Insolencies inclined the Indians to receive those Holland Rebels into their Ports Covetousness couched under the Pretence of Religion carried the Portugueses to conquer those remote Countries and the insatiable Avarice of some expels and makes them esteemed less than Rebels and Pyrats 18. Two Ships that sailed from Lisbon for India after five Months Voyage were put back into the same River having lost many Men by sickness In November sailed two Pinks The Viceroy desiring to recover Ormuz sent Dominick de Toral and Valdez a a Spaniard to view the Place and confer with Ruy Freyre then at Mascate about it but it came to nothing However a Fort was built at Iulfar a Fishery of Pearl 50 Leagues distant from Mascate 19. This Year our European Enemies ranging the Seas without any opposition took many of our Ships and ruined our Trade Besides they incensed the Indian Princes against us we having no body at those Courts to disappoint their Designs The Ruine of our Affairs proceeds from the little regard the great ones have for the lesser sort and the covetousness of the small ones which made them forget their Country and their Honour 20. The Portugueses dispersed in Ceylon since the defeat of D. Constantine gathering again considerably annoyed the Enemy Hence it appears our own Disorders are our Ruine The Portugueses can recover what is lost but know not how to preserve what they gain which is the most glorious part it being the Work of Fortune to gain and that of Prudence to preserve CHAP. IX Of the Affairs of Ethiopia during the Government of the Viceroy D. Michael de Noronna Count de Linnares 1. THis being the last time we shall treat of Ethiopia it will not be amiss to relate some farther Particulars of the Reception of the Patriarch D. Alfonso Mendez though somewhat has been already said concerning it He sailed from Goa on the 17th of November 1624 and at Chaul received a Letter from the Emperor Congratulating his arrival in India 2. All the way he travelled in Ethiopia he was entertained by the Governors and principal Men was met by the Sons of those Portugueses who went thither with D. Christopher de Gama to the assistance of the Emperor then Reigning and came to Fremona the chief Residence of Catholicks on the 21th of Iune 1625. The Emperor much rejoyced at the News of his arrival and sent two Men of great Quality to Conduct him but could not then see him being in the Field with his Army against certain Rebels On the 6th of February 1626 he was sent for by the Emperor to the Army The Prince accompanied by the Viceroys and Nobility went out to meet and conduct him through a Lane of 18000 Men to a Tent provided for his reception There he put on his Pontifical Robes and