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Portuguese. We do not well know yet all the circum- 

 stances of that so celebrated victory, considering that it was 

 gained quite recently." (Cf. Abb£ C. Dehaisnes, Vie du Pere 

 Nicolas Trigault de la Compagnie de Jesus, Tournai, Casterman, 

 1864, pp. 235-36.) 



Father du Jarric, quoting Father Fernao Guerreiro, S.J., 

 who held his information from the Jesuits then in Bengal, 

 writes that in the first engagement, in 1605, a thousand 

 ordnance pieces, big and middling ones, were taken. On the 

 second occasion, in 1607, the King of Arakan armed 75 large 

 galiots, each bearing at least 12 large guns. He disposed in 

 all of 3,500 pieces of artillery, "large and small." But, to 

 make good his escape, after his defeat near Siriam, he was 

 obliged to bury the greater part of his artillery along the coast. 

 (Cf. du Jarric, Troisiesme partie de V Histoire des choses plus 



memorables .... Bordeaus, 1614, pp. 870, 874, 884.) 



When Chittagong was taken by the Moguls in 1666, 1,223 

 pieces of cannon, of different calibres, were found in the place. 

 (Cf. Stewart's History of Bengal, p. 300.) 



