IGIN OF THZ 



WESTERN HINDOOS TAN. 



the attack was made, found that the wily Indian had left them 

 no more than the value of one hundred thoufand pounds to 

 divide among them. 



The firft of the name was Conagee Angria, an adventurer in Or 

 the time of Aurengzebe, entrufted by the Mahrattas with the Name. 

 fort of Severn-droog. He not only kept pofTeffion of that for- 

 trefs, but extended his territories a hundred and twenty miles 

 along the coafts, and as far inland as the Ghauts. Mahrattas, 

 Indians.) renegado Chrijiians, and Negroes, flocked in vaft num- 

 bers to the piratical ftandard, which became atkfl: as formidable 

 in thefe feas, as that of Algiers in the Mediterranean. All his 

 fucceflbrs retained the nzmQ of Angria, even to the laft, whofe 

 deftruf^ion we have related, 



I HERE mention Da/ml, a neighboring place, to contraft Dabul. 

 the condudl of the Portiigue/e, who, in 1555, took it with un- 

 common inftances of barbarity. They fet fire to it in four 

 places. The male inhabitants efcaped ; but the favage heroes 

 (for we cannot deny the charader of heroifm) jnit to the fword 

 fhe defencelefs fex and innocent children^-. After various other 

 barbarities along the coalf, the wretched conqueror, Brandan, 

 was received at the capital, Goa, with every mark of ap- 

 probation. 



The important city of Goa Hands on an ifland of the fame IsleofGoa 

 name, in Lat. 15° 28' 20", in a fine bay, a few leagues lower. 

 The city was for a greait length of time the moft magnificent in 

 India. The churches and palaces of the inhabitants were of 



* Conquetes des Portugais, iv. 183. 



great ' 



