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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

King they never write any thing reflecting or immodest nor have any letter to express the private parts so that they are never mentioned in any writing their Verses are in Rhime Their Painting was without Oyl or shadows till they knew and imitated us and draw well by the life Their skill in Phisick is the greatest they have ancient Authors that treat of it ours are there unknown bleeding Cupping Sirrups Glisters Issues nor Potions are not used there but only Pills All the Medicines are simples as Herbs Roots Fruit and Seeds all dry and therefore their Apothecaries have no pots the Doctors write no receipts but bring along with them a case with all Medicines in good order and compound them before the Patient their judgment in the Pulse is singular they ask no questions of the Sick but give themselves an account of the Disease and apply the Remedy their Cures are singular not but that there are some ignorant among them 10. In ceremonies they are impertinent the manner is to bow the Head to the ground if to a greater Person they kneel and bow in like manner in some cases they rise again and repeat it at least 3 times commonly 4 to the King 9. Particular garments are used for visiting unless among familiar friends if they meet and one has the garment on and the other not he immediately puts it on for a servant carries it it is generally black Doctors Magistrates and Gentlemen that wear the habit of Doctors are excused from wearing of it 11. The King when he does reverence to his Idols or Mother holds before his Face a piece of Ivory a span and half long and about 4 Fingers broad all that speak to him use the same ceremony If two Mandarines in the street cannot avoid meeting without stopping their Chairs they joyn their hands and carry them leisurly to their Heads bowing them which is done as soon as they see one another and repeated till they be passed by if one be inferior to the other he stops the Chair or in case he be on Horseback alights and makes a profound reverence if they are not Mandarines they make the usual compliments if common People they joyn hands carry them to the Forehead shaking Servants in great Houses do not bow to their Lords but at the new Year or when he has been absent their sign of respect is to stand upright with their Arms hanging down Mandarines servants speak to them on their knees to give or receive any thing with one hand is not courteous betwixt equals and very rude from inferors to superiors 12. In their visits they use the Thie which is a long piece of Paper made like a Fan the breadth is proportionable to the quality of the Person from one to 16 sheets the Colaos use the least only one line is writ upon it and contains 9 letters between friends among others 6 or 7 the purport of them to this effect Your great friend and perpetual Disciple of your Doctrine here enters the name kisses your hand and comes to do you reverence This Paper is in a purse of the same and that in another made close and curious 13. The visiter himself carries this Paper and gives it the Porter who delivers it to his Master if he receives the visit and not the Thie he is not obliged to pay it but if it is left only with the Porter he pays the visit Great Men as Colaos Mandarines and Viceroys seldome visit ●…y body but as they pass by the Doors leave their Thies when they will not receive visits they set up a Paper over the Door specifying they are not in Town all visits are made in the morning and they always treat with Sweet-meats or Fruit or at least Drink that is Cha. 14. When any one is to absent himself for a time all friends visit and present him and he is bound at his return to send presents to all that sent him any they never visit the Sick but inquire at the Door of their Health the Person visited sets the Chairs himself and wipes them with his sleeve all the visiters do the same with his If there be no distinction of superiority they take their places according to Age the Person visited the last as soon as seated the Cha is brought and they all Drink When one speaks of himself it is with great humility if they speak of the Son to the Father they do not say your Son but the Noble Son if of the Daughter the pretious Love if they inquire about the Sick they say How goes the illustrious Sickness speaking of themselves they do not say I but the Schollar the Disciple and Persons of mean profession as a Carryer they call The great Rod the Person visited waits upon the visiter to the street and they part with impertinent Ceremonies then send Messages to and fro as if they had not seen one another 15. They often send presents of Shooes Stockins Linnen Porcelane Ink Pencils and Eatable things of the best With the present goes a Thie being a list of the things sent it is no ill manners to send back all or part some only send the list of things they design to present naming very many as knowing all will not be accepted and he it is sent to marks down what he will accept of others send all the things which are only hired and so restore what is sent back and pay for the rest he that receives is obliged to return a present 16. They use many banquets which are very costly and last long There are neither Napkins nor Knives on the Tables because they Eat as was said of the Iaponeses but sitting on Chairs and at high Tables and round them hang cloths in the manner of Pulpit cloths Dinner is at 7 in the morning Supper at Evening or Night upon these occasions the Rooms are adorned as our Churches on Holidays all the time of Eating there is Musick and Plays acted some will go to four or more Feasts in one Day they seem to be of the Opinion of let us Eat and let us Drink for to morrow we shall Die CHAP. XVI Of the Marriages Burials Ceremonies Sacrifices and belief of the Chineses 1. THE Chineses have used an indissoluble form of Marriage by joyning of hands for above 3000 Years they also allow of Concubines which are taken after another manner and commonly bought They may part when they please but till they have Children are servants to the Wife their Children call●… Mother and do not put on Mourning for them When the Man dies the Wife and Children retain the command of the House and if she di●… the Concubine succeeds Widdows may marry again but are more esteem'd if they do not In choosing Wives they have respect to good qualities but for Concubines beauty ●…or good humour 2. They cannot marry into the Fathers kindred though many degrees removed nor with any of the sirname for fear of kindred but may

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

Misfortunes than pleased with Success 10. Bernardin de Sousa at the Maluco's continued the War against the King of Gilolo and drew off with a rich Booty after destroying some Towns on the Coast with Fire and Sword At this time came Christopher de Sá to succeed him in that Command 11. George Cabral imbarqued well pleased with his good success against the sworn nayres and was well received in Portugal for his great Merit contrary to the Custom of this Kingdom He was generally esteemed one of the best Governours of India He was the sixteenth of that number and held it a year and four Months His Person was graceful his Countenance pleasing of a ruddy Complexion his Beard a dark Chesnut 12. This Year was born at Goa the Father and Mother were Canara's a hairy Monster like a Monky with a round Head and only one Eye in the Forehead over it grew Horns and on the sides Ears like those of a Kid. As the Midwife received it into her Hands it cried out with a loud Voice and stood upon its Feet The Father locked it up in a Hen-Coop It got out and seizing upon the Mother had like to tear off one of her Nipples The Father catching it again poured scalding Water upon the Head and killed it and could scarce cut off the Head it was so hard He burnt it and the thing being known he was punished for killing it and the Body was exposed to publick view in the City CHAP. IX The Government of the Vice-Roy D. Alfonso de Noronha from the Year 1550 till 1553 in the Reign of King JOHN the Third 1. DOn Alfonso de Noronha was taken from the Government of Ceuta to be sen●… to that of India and more Favours conferred on him than on any of his Predecessors as if this Post of it self were not as great a Favour for him as for others Thus we see Princes bestow the very same Places on some as Rewards which they give to others as a step to Merit The fault is not in the Gift but in him that bestows it But it seems the King in part ballanced this Favour by assigning him a Council by whom he must of necessity be Advised in India 2. He had Orders to send back into Portugal all the New Christians that is Converted Jews who had gone from hence with their whole Families and it were better they had been banished both places He was also to take cognizance of those Ancient Christians who disturbed such as were converted from Paganism 3. Don Alfonso set out of Lisbon with four Ships one had been sent before to give Advice why the rest stayed and D. Alvaro de Gama Son to the Great Vasco sailed so late it was never expected he would get thither yet he overtook the others the Seas being favourable to all that descend from his Father for it was never known any of them was Cast-away The Vice-Roy was received at Goa with the usual demonstrations of Joy proceeding rather from the hatred they bear him that lays down the Sword than love to him that takes it up 4. He immediately sent Advice of his Arrival to all Parts and dispatched Commanders to several Forts and for Sea Luis Figueyra was sent to the Red Sea with five Vessels where they met the Turk Cafar with five Galliots Figueyra attacks Cafar's Galliot and was slain much admired by the Enemy for his Valour The four subordinate Captains stood looking on and saw him killed without coming to his Relief One of them Gaspar Nunez ashamed of what he had done went away with all his Men into Ethiopia and was never more heard of Soveral another of them met one of those Galliots fought and they parted upon equal Terms After he met the other two and they all returned with disgrace to Goa 5. The Arabs of Catifa delivered up to the Turks the Fort of that City which highly offended the King of Ormuz The Turks had also expelled his Kingdom the King of Baçora who yet kept the Field with Thirty thousand Men in hopes to recover his Kingdom with the assistance of the Portugueses To this effect he sent an Embassy to the Vice-Roy offering leave to build a Fort in his Harbour and other Advantages to the Crown of Portugal D. Antonio de Noronha Nephew to the Vice-Roy was sent to assist these two Kings with Twelve hundred Men in nineteen Vessels Being come to Ormuz they marched with Three thousand of that Kings Men and set down before the Fort of Catifa Four hundred Turks that were in that Garrison behaved themselves bravely but finding it in vain to resist fled by Night and being discovered were pursued and routed The Fort was taken and the Captain of Ormuz not daring to maintain it it was thought fit to be razed A Mine was made which taking fire before the time and blowing up the Work buried 40 Portugueses 6. After this Victory Noronha sailed to the Mouth of the River Euphrates in order to relieve the King of Baçora Here a cunning Bassa persuaded him he was sent for to be delivered up to his Enemies whereupon he returned Inglorious to Ormuz where being come he understood the Deceit but it was too late 7. The Vice-Roy had sent D. Garcia de Meneses to Command at Ternate at the Request of that King who could not endure Iordan de Freytas that sent him Prisoner to Goa The Affairs of Malaca hindred Meneses from going thither Bernardin de Sousa who had scarce resigned that Post to Christopher de Sá returned with Orders to continue there in case the Spaniards encroached upon those places Sá refused to admit him because the Spaniards were quiet and his Order conditional but Sousa pressed to be restored because he had not made so much of that Command as he expected At length Sá to prevent Mischief submitted Sousa immediately sets out with 180 Portugueses and sails for Gilolo to destroy the Fort was raising there The King of Ternate and Prince of Bacham followed with 5000 Men. 8. The King of Gilolo couragiously expected the coming of his Enemy in the the Fort with 1200 Men and many Pieces of Cannon Baltasar Veloso led our Van the Prince of Gilolo breaking out of an Ambush with Four hundred Men fell upon and distressed him but Veloso though seventy years of Age made such havock among the Enemies they were forced to fly Our Captain received some damage continues his Battery and sits down to besiege the place He cut off their Water which obliged them after a Siege of three Months to Capitulate and Peace was concluded upon these hard Terms That the King should lose this Title and be styled Governour and pay Tribute The Portugueses entred the Fort in his presence committing many barbarous Enormities and laid it even with the ground It is no small Credit to those of Gilolo that they held out four days after all their Provision was spent On our side Three hundred Men were killed eighteen of them

Insect to death The other two sorts are the Resbuti who are good Soldiers formerly the chief of this Kingdom They acknowledge one God and three persons and worship the Blessed Virgin a Doctrine preserved from the time of the Apostles The last are Mahometans called Lauteas that is Natives who embraced that Sect and those who came to conquer the Countrey The common people are very ingenious in Mechanicks in Works of Silk Gold Ivory Mother of Pearl Tortoise-shell Crystal Ebony and other things of Delight They follow the Rules of Pithagoras killing no Creature but rather buy all tho venemous from those who take them and set them loose again They entertain men whose only Business it is to look about the Towns and Fields for Beasts that are sick which they cure with great care in Hospitals erected for that purpose Notwithstanding all this Beastly Charity they have none that may be called human for they will not reach their Hand to assist any person in the greatest necessity 2. In the year 1292 and according to the Mahometan Account 700 the Pagan Galacama was in quiet possession of this Kingdom and disturbed it to deprive his Brother of the Kingdom of Champanel left him by his Father Galacarna employed two Brothers as Generals upon his Frontiers Madana one of them had the most beautiful Woman of that Country to Wife She was of the Race of Padaminii who are affirmed besides their comely Shape to have so sweet a Scent in their Skin that they communicate it to their Cloaths which makes them esteemed above all o others With much reason for it is a wonder to find a Woman that has a good smell Yet not impossible They say there are scarce any of these Women in this Kingdom but many in Orixa There is no mischief without a Woman even where they have an ill favour how much more where one smelt well The King in love with this Wife of Madana tried all means to gain her but she being chaste which was doubtless the sweet Smell acquainted her Husband and Brother who joining with Xiath Nosaradim King of Delhi on whom the Covetousness of that Kingdom prevailed they wasted the Kingdom of Cambaya till Galacarna was at last slain in Battel Nosaradim lest Habedxiath his General to conquer the Remainder He rewarded the two Brothers who brought him to this Conquest and retured home having made the Kings of Mandou and Chitor tributary Nosaradim soon after being killed by his Nephew Civil Wars ensued and several Governors revolting called themselves Kings as did Habedxiath to whom Moors succeeded Thus 3. The year 1330 Hamet the Mahomemetan Tartar who lived in the City Cambaya with the assistance of Arabs Persians Greeks and Rumes or Turks usurped great part of this Kingdom then possessed by Desingue Rao What he had tyrannically gained he prudently maintained Ale Cham succeeded him and had forty Sons and three of them were Kings The first Peruxiath who succeeded him the second Azeide Cham who by his Wife got the Kingdom of Mandou and the third Ale Cham who with his Wife had the Kingdom of Agimar bordering on that of Chitor Peruxiath followed his Father's Example in securing his Government and built the City Diu in memory of a Victory gained over a Chinese Fleet. Sultan Mahomet his Son succeeded him and reigned at the time that D. Vasco de Gama discovered India he left the Crown to his Son Madafor as worthy of it for his Actions as Birth Not to his Son Scander Cham who gave occasion to his Subjects to kill him and set up his youngest Brother Mahomet Cham. But the second Brother Latisa Cham to whom of right the Crown belonged made War but without success and it remained in the third his Name was Badur Cham. 4. Modafar divided the Possession of Melique Az the Lord of Diu among his three Sons This Distribution enraged the King 's own Sons who coveted those ●…ands But chiefly Badur who poisoned his Father by whom he was as much hated as loved by his Mother After this Murder he fled to the King of Chitor and killing one there in the King's presence in a Ball made to entertain him with the assistance of Crementii the Queen he fled to Delhi 5. There he made himself a Calandar or Religious Man to shun the punishment of his Crimes These Calandars go loaded with Iron Chains and feed very hard with this outward rigor they practise privately all sorts of Wickedness and Uncleanness They enter into no Towns but blow a Horn without that people may bring them Alms. Sometimes they go together to the number of two thousand Badur was one of these Hearing of the Distractions of the Kingdom of Cambaya he repaired thither with his Chains in search of the Crown In that manner he entred Cambaya and was proclaimed King by favour of the people who were pleased with those Tokens of Religion His Brother Desta●… C ham thought to escape by submitting but he caused his Head to be cut off as a Traitor Then he gave the Cities of Reyner and Surat to two rich Merchants and afterwards overcame in battel his Brother Latisa Cham. He caused Madremaluco to be fley'd alive because he had settled his younger Brother in the Kingdom in hopes to have the Administration of it then with his own Hand beheaded the Brother and two others that reproved that Act. 6. Badur desiring to take off Melique Saca Commander of Diu sent for him upon pretence of Business but he excused himself upon other pretences and so stopped the Execution and being pressed endeavoured to escape with his Riches but being disappointed went off poor and not without danger His Friends at Diu brought thither from Madrefahat his Brothor Melique Tocam Badur the other being fled had like to have killed this but for some Reasons was obliged to pardon him and others but he destroyed many He set out for Champanel the year 1527 where were brought to him sorty French Men and one Stephen Dias Brigas a Portuguese who for some Crimes done in his Country fled into France and came to India Captain of a Ship of that Nation at Diu they were all taken and sent to Badur by whom they were all miserably put to death 7. At Champanel came to Badur Embassadors from Babor Paxiath King of Delhi demanding homage for that Kingdom as part of the Dominion of their Prince Badur at first would have killed them but replyed he would himself carry the Answer and instantly composed an Army of one hundred thousand Men four hundred Elephants and a great Train of Artillery His Design was disappointed being forced to turn himself to Doitabad a great Town taken by Nizamaluco and tho he recovered it it was with great loss some by the Weather as being Winter and some by a Shower of Stones as big as Oranges At Champanel he found certain Men of the Kingdom of the Colii who said they came to receive Tribute which he paid by fleying them

Vidigueyra 1. THE Kingdom of Pegu before not very considerable was raised to be one of the greatest Empires in Asia by the King of Uva and Brama assisted by 1000 Portugueses under the Command of Antony Ferreyra de Braganca who served him as his natural Prince The Kingdom of Pegu properly so called borders on that of Arracam the Countries of the Brama's and Iungoma's on the West is bounded by they Sea of Bengala from the City Rei to that of Sidoa distant 90 Leagues from each other the breadth of the Kingdom is about the same and its true Name is Bagou 2. It is about 1000 Years since this Kingdom was first erected by a Seaman who was the first King then his Son who lived 80 Years next the Grandson called Tam these and all their Successors added to their Name the Title of Banna Caél Uca Talanna Inda Darar Mampla Ximindo the last who died the Year 1640 as was before related when Branginoco so far inlarged it by his Conquests that it extended to China and Tartary and was Sovereign of Twenty-four great Kingdoms beside Eighty Princes not inferior to Kings Thus it became the powerfullest Monarchy in Asia except that of China 3. This King for the Conquest of Martavam thirty Leagues distant from Pegu gathered 700000 Men and 1700 Ships The Siege lasted six Months in which died 160000 Men. The City being taken and the King killed 140000 Houses were burnt besides 1600 Temples in which were taken 60000 Idols most of Gold and precious Stones there were also taken 3000 Elephants 6000 Cannon and innumerable Prisoners The King's share of the Spoil was above 100 Millions of Gold 4. For the Conquest of Siam he led a greater Force possessed himself of the Kingdom and took the King and his two Sons called by reason of their different colour one the Black the other the White He was content to leave that King in Possession of the Crown as his Vassal having himself been till then his Subject carrying away his two Sons as Hostages 5. Branginoco returning Victorious to Pegu entred the City in Triumph many Waggons going before loaded with Idols and inestimable Booty He came at last in a Chariot with the conquered Queens loaden with Jewels at his Feet and drawn by the Captive Princes and Lords before him marched Two thousand Elephants richly adorned and after him his victorious Troops He built a Palace as big as an ordinary City The least part of its Beauty was rich Painting and Gilding for the Roofs of some Apartments were covered with Plates of solid Gold Some Rooms were set with Statues of Kings and Queens of massy Gold set with rich Stones as big as the Life He was carried on a Litter of Gold upon many Mens Shoulders the Reverence paid him was more like a God than a Prince 6. After some time the two Brothers asked leave of the King to go visit their Father which he granted and afterwards sending to demand the usual Tribute the black Prince refused to pay it The King in a Rage sends his great Favourite Banna with a powerful Army against him Banna ravaged the Country of Siam and Besieges the Prince in Hudixa who defended it so bravely that Banna being forced to draw off he fell upon and totally defeated him The King sends his Brother-in-Law with a greater Power and he receives a greater overthrow 200000 of his Men were cut in pieces with a great number of Elephants and Horses many more of both taken The black Prince remained Victorious his Men were enriched and all encouraged to follow their good Fortune 7. The King of Pegu raises another Army of 1700000 Men 1500 Elephants 80000 Horse and all Necessaries proportionable the Command of it he gave to Mapa Raja his Son with the Title of King of Siam not doubting of the Victory At the News of this Power all Siam trembled except the valiant Black now King who met his Enemy and gave him Battel The two Kings encountring on their Elephants fought and he of Pegu was cast dead off his Elephant at which sight his Men fled and the Siamites pursued them a Month destroying the greatest part of that vast Army 8. The King of Pegu in a Rage for the Death of his Son turned his Fury against the People and some days burnt above Ten Thousand throwing so many into thè River Ganga as stopped the Passage even of Boats He forbid them sowing which caused such a a Famine that they not only eat one another to which purpose there was a publick Butchery of Man's Flesh but devoured part of their own Bodies For want of Fuel they made fire of human Bones having first taken off the Flesh to eat It is wonderful all this Tyranny never obliged that People to rebel A good Example given by Heathens to those more barbarous Christians who dare fly in the Face of just Princes without the least shadow of Oppression 9. This was followed by a Pestilence that depopulated all the Kingdom The neighbouring Princes taking this advantage fell upon the King of Pegu covetous of his Treasures Among them was the Black of Siam who retired with the loss 100000 Men. The King of Tangu was he that possessed himself of all he promised Life Liberty and Estates to all that would come over to him The first that deserted were the Portugueses and Moors for some Portugueses are like Moors in Matters of Interest After them followed a Bastard Son of the King whose Head was cut off by Order of the King of Pegu's Sister Wife to him of Tangu saying That he who was false to his Father could not be true to her She said and did well but who will punish her for treating her Brother barbarously when taken 10. He in despair delivers himself up to the King of Tangu who being possessed of the City and Palace found such Treasure that he made no account of Silver and other Metals and Riches It is avouched for truth that he could not remove all the Jewels and Gold in twelve Caravans each consisting of Seven hundred Elephants and Horses The News of this Treasure drew thither the King of Arracam who contenting himself with what he of Tangu undervalued gathered above Three Millions and a great Train of large Cannon The King of Tangu presented him of Pegu to his Sister and she who having killed his Son for betraying him it was thought would comfort used him Reproachfully and afterwards seeing the King her Husband inclined to Mercy caused him to be beaten to Death 11. The King of Tangu in whose House he of Pegu was Murdered by his own Sister was his Creature and Son to a Carter So that Kingdom had its beginning in a Seaman or Waterman and ended in a Carter both Employs of the same Nature one by Land and the other by Water 12. This Year came into India from the remote Mountains of Scythia or Tartary the Prince Baxan Fourth Grandson of Tamerlain the Great was by the Augustin

Mendoça Furtado returned to Goa where he found D. Hierome de Azevedo was then Viceroy Ruy Lorenço de Tavora was Viceroy three Years the 21th of that number 41th Governor and second of the Name and Sirname He had more Inclination to Peace than War which produced Concord with all the Kings of India of Stature tall his Complexion fair aged and a good Christian a rare thing among Men of Quality CHAP. XI Of the Propagation of the Christian Faith in China 1. THough these Affairs properly appertain to the Ecclesiastical History of which I design a particular Volume yet for the satisfaction of those who desire some Information herein and having at the end of the First Part said somewhat touching the first entrance of Christianity in China I will here briefly relate its Progress till the Year 1640 though it be anticipating the Time that the Relation may not be too much dismembred and because that Order is chiefly observed by me in Martial Affairs 2. The four Houses or Residences of Xancheu Nancham Nanking and Peking being setled F. Emanuel Diaz was sent as Visitor of the three first because F. Matthew Rivius could not be spared from the other which was the Soul of them all The Visitor-General Valiniano setled 30 Crowns a Year upon each Residence finding it sufficient to cloath and maintain the Religious who were to live there that they might not obstruct the advancement of the Faith by the necessity of asking any thing 3. The Visitor sent new Fathers to all the Residences In the Year 1604 Cuitayso was Baptized till then he only gave ear to it but was the cause that many were converted and procured the Foundation at Nanking He was called Ignatius In the Year 1606 died the Visitor Valiniano at Macao Nicholas Pimenta succeeded him 4. F. Matthew Rivius died at Peking in the Year 1610 the King appointed his place of Burial and allotted his Companions a House and Church The Mandarins and others celebrated his Funeral with great demonstrations of esteem He was the first buried in that country for all that died before were carried to Macao 5. The Year 1613 the Religious were expelled Hancheu and coming to the City Nanhiun built a Church there and afterwards others In the Year 1616 there were 7 Residences two at Peking one of them without the Walls one at Nanking one at Hancheu one at Nancham one at Caiyeu and one at Nanhiun In them all were 22 Fathers the Converts amounted to 6000 among them many Nobles Lawyers and Mandarines and some Bonzo's 6. The Year 1617 the Religious were expelled from all their Residences the Persecution began at Nanking Some escaped to Quantung and Macao 14 remained hid in China who were afterwards called by other Cities to erect new Foundations One was at Kiencham in the Province of Kiangsi through the means of a Lawyer who was converted and christned Stephen Another at Xambay in the Country of Paul the Doctor Another at Quartim in the Province of Nanking which City it could serve without a Residence there but the Fathers were restored to it by the assistance of Doctor Michael a great Admirer of them and of Christianity and afterwards one of the most famous Preachers of the Gospel By degrees the Persecution ceased and the Fathers were every where restored Two new Residencies were erected in the Cities of Xansi and Xensi and some of those that had been banished returned from Macao 7. The Year 1622 two other Residences were setled in the Province of Fokien another at Xansi another at Xensi another at Honan All things went on successfully and the Year 1630 the Converts came in by hundreds afterwards by thousands 8. In the Year 1634 there were in China 22 European Fathers and 4 Brothers greatly esteemed by the Mandarins and other Persons of Note A Prince of the Province of Xantung sent for some Fathers to hear their Doctrine so did other Provinces afterwards 9. At Peking there were 288 Converts among them Mandarines Lawyers and Soldiers one Eunuch and one Bonzo which is considerable they being a sort of Priests he converted his Father and some Relations 10. At Nanking 70 Converts and a Noble Eunuch of 75 Years of Age. The Christians here were so zealous that when the Fathers removed a Lawyer and his Nephew carrying the Vestments and other Church-stuff on their backs and being told by the Father The Servants might do it They replied It was not fit any body should carry the Things of the Church but they who were proud to be Porters to Iesus Christ. 11. At Kiamcheu and Pucheu almost 2000 Converts at a time when the three greatest Calamities of this World succeeded each other The first was Famine which raged to that degree they eat one another two Women were shot to Death being convicted of eating 40 Children A Father and Mother rather than see their Child perish in their Arms cast it into a River and themselves after it Others buried a Child alive a Christian call'd Peter saved both the Children and brought them up The next Calamity was War and the third the Plague 12. At Hancheu in the Province of Chekiang the Converts amounted not to 150. At Xamhay 400. At Narcham only 26. At Quiencham 80. In the City Fokien 257 and many in the Country At Singam not 100 by reason of the Famine that raged as at Quiamcheu they eat the Dead ground Stones and used the Dust in stead of Meal Some at Hoacheu and the Neighbourhood At Honan but 30. In the Kingdom of Hannam which the Portugueses call Tonking almost 100000. 13. Thomas a Native of Thinhoa laboured in the Kingdom of the Lao'●… That People is white good conditioned and have no Thieves among them Those of Hannam undervalue them for eating of Vermin They wear narrow Gowns their Feet bare the Head commonly uncovered their Hair round and short like a Lay-Brother only one Lock on the Temples which is run through holes made to that purpose in the Ears they adore an Idol called Theica with the same Ceremonies those of Hannam worship their Tham. They Trade into this Kingdom their Merchandize Elephants Buda's Skins Benjamin and Amber 14. At Dangthan 2441 Converts and many at Thinhoa At Nighihan 4200 the Residence is at Rumo there are 26 Churches and the Divine Offices are celebrated with much magnificence In Bochinh a half Province next Cochinchina 130 were Baptized In an Orchard here was found a Tree brought from the Laos the Leaves whereof gain him that carries them the Affection of all he meets and Reconcile them if Enemies Being examined whether it was not Superstition it was judged to be a Natural Virtue 15. In the Year 1635 there were not above 3300 Converted among all the Residences The House at Chincheo was then first founded A Church was erected in the Town of Yunchum and another in the City Chancheu Now there will be a greater Fruit reaped because the King protects and countenances the Religious