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206 Journ. of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [July & Aug., 1916. 
ruin of our Empire.! And in order that one may gauge their 
real extent, I will now, after having referred to them generally, 
record here what a zealous and inquisitive Minister [of State] of 
Goa observed and wrote about the great losses and set-backs this 
State sustained from the year 1629 to the year 1636. From 
this account it will be seen that, owing to the want of piety 
and due respect to things Divine, the State was weakened, and 
public weal was impaired to the great detriment of the Portu- 
guese glory and of the Lusitanian valour, which formerly, 
when ambition was not so pronounced, was the object of univer- 
sal terror and admiration and reduced to 2 a the greatest 
Princes of the world. 
A summary of the losses which the East India State suffered in the 
time of the Viceroy D. Miguel de Noronha, Count of Linhares, 
who governed for _ six years from the 21st October, 1629, io 
Sth December, | 635. 
he Malavares (Malabarese) took is wha of the Fleet 
pe 
(Hist. Nov. Orb., Cent 2,¢. 90, Tom. I, », 95 9), Trjane Bow lino and 
Honorato Fascitello, who wrote that the rtuguese in r discoveries 
and conquests be > moved less by the ee of their haty veligical than by 
the auri sacra fam 
1 The nuns of ta Convent of Santa Monica, whose cause the author 
ocates, were at this time being severe ly persecuted by the Gover 
; decree had i i . 
ut the p 
nd progress of the Convent the State me 
VIX, pp. 249-276). the maldior to oMan rages (CE. oe 
enorm By 
osses w. the Portu ae ed re pete de 
administration uguese suffered owing wee 
—— and rand slacknoss, consequent upon a falling-off in their ™ 
ea, 
2? Near the old City of Goa. 
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