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c< tafks, without admitting of the (mailed relief or ex- 

 " emption. Others they tranfported into Guzerat, 

 and into the Concan, and towards Arabia, being 

 places which they themfelves ufed to frequent, in 

 <f the view either of fettling or fojourning therein, or 

 c< of capturing vefTels. In this way they accumulated 

 <c great wealth and property, making captives alfo of 

 cc women of rank, whom they kept in their houfes till 

 " European iffue was procured from them. Thefe Por- 

 " tuguefe did in thrs'manner alfo feize on many Seyyuds % 

 " learned and principal men, whom they retained in 

 " confinement till they put them to deaths thus pre- 

 cc judicing and diftreffing the MufTulmans in a thou- 

 <c fand ways ; fo as that I have not a tongue to tell or 

 <c defcribe all the mifchiefs and mortifications attend- 

 " ant on fuch a fcene of evil. 



2d. ff After this they exerted their utmoft efforts 

 Cf (which they had, indeed, from fir ft to laft j to bring 

 " the MufTulmans within the pale of their religion ; 

 * f and they made at length peace with them for a con- 

 " fideration to be paid to them of ten in the hundred. 



3d. cc The Mahommedans refiding principally on 

 " the fea coafts, it was cuftomary for the newly arrived 

 cf Europeans (who ufed to refort annually to India at 

 " the appointed feafons) deridingly to afk the perfons 

 w fettled of their nation at the fea-ports, whether, and 

 <c why, they (thefe fettled Portuguese) had not yet done 

 <e away the appearance of thefe people the Mujfulmans ? 

 " reviling thereon their own chiefs for not abol idling 

 " the Mahommedan religion ; in the profecution of 

 <f which view the heads of the Portuguefe deft red the 

 " Hakim of Ccchin to expel the Mujfulmans from his 

 " city, promiftng thereon to prove themfelves the 

 " means of his reaping double the profit which ac- 

 " crued to him from their traffic k ; but the Hakim of 

 " Cochin anfwered, x Thefe are my fubjects from days 

 cc of old ; and it is they who have erected my city ; fo 

 " that it is not poiTible for me to expel them." 



B 3 XVII. 



