1922.] History and Ethnology of N.-B. India. 41 
at the conversions of his tenants to Christianity, ordered that 
Fr. Raphael should be arrested and his hands and feet being 
tied up should be thrown into a ditch or well. “He defied the 
new ae a saying: ‘‘If your priest is a true minister of 
Almighty God let us see whether he dies or not.’’ And 
after a ond time hoping Fr. Raphael was already dead, 
he ordered the Christians to take out and bury him, but to the 
great glory of God, to the extreme joy of the Christians, to 
the immense confusion of [the] heathens, Fr. Raphael was 
taken out alive and found unhurt. Then Dos Mahamed Osman 
asked pardon of Fr. Raphael and offered some landed proper- 
ties for [the] establishing of his mission and his disciples. 
Hence Fr. Raphael built his church about 300 years ago, 
converted many more people, and brought for missionary work 
another priest named Fr. Johu. When the English dominion 
was established in India, Dos Mahomed sold his Zemindary to 
Fr. Raphael and went away. The official documents of the 
Zemindary exist in the name of Dos Mahomed Osman. There 
is no difference between the Christians with regard to their 
social intercourse and they constitute and consider themselves 
as one family and they make a weak distinction in respect to 
marriages only ; those who descend from Mohamedans, weavers, 
farmers, etc., want to have marriage with those of the respec- 
tive origin ; but at present this distinction is getting vanished 
owing to many mixed marriages. All documents of the former 
times are destroyed by white ants. 
APPENDIX II. 
PORTUGUESE IN EASTERN BENGAL. 
By the late Dr. James Wise, M.D., of Dacca. 
[ p. 409] ‘The first Portugall,”’ as far as Antonio Galvam 
knew,! “ which drunke of the River Ganges was a knight, called 
J. Coello. ” In 1516, Fernando Perez de Andrada was sent 
with a letter to him, but the credit of having discovered and ob- 
served the country is due to Don John de Silveira, who was 
conimissioned in 1518 to negotiate with the King of Bengal. 
The by the gov r 
‘‘Chatigan,”’ but a quarrel arose, and though speedily quelled, 
broke out again, and with great difficulty a treaty was conclud- 

oss a Discoveries of the World.’’ Reprinted by the Hakluyt Socie- 
t 
ne * Haccoraing to Pére H. Josson op. cit. August 1913, p. 285) Coello 
nt by d’Andrade to the Ceart “of Bengal—then under Sultan Husain 
si aah, e Portuguese Viceroy of India at the time was the famous 
Alphonso oe (1509-1515 ): and he was succeeded by Lopez 
Suarez. H.E.S. ] 
