46 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (N.S., XVIII, 
In 1607 the Mag Rajah made war, captured Dianga, and 
[p. 413] drove the survivors to the islands of the Meghna. 
Sondip, which had fallen into the hands of the Mughals, was 
held by a force under Fath Khan, who had put to death all the 
Portuguese and the Christian slaves in the island. A few 
escaped with Sebastian Gonzales Tibao, and became pirates, 
plundering villages and conveying the booty to Bakla, where 
they sold it. Fath Khan having equipped a fleet, set sail to 
extirpate these pests, but Sebastian Pinto attacked his vessels 
off Dakhin Shahbazptr, destroyed a great number, and killed 
Fath Khan. In March 1609, the Portuguese, supported by 
troops from Bakla, laid siege to the fort of Sondip, held by the 
Mughals under a brother of Fath Khan, while the Hindu 
population looked on with characteristic indifference. The fort 
was stormed and taken after a gallant defence. The garrison 
and all the Muhammadans in the island, a thousand in number, 
were in retaliation massacred in cold blood. Gonzales perfidi- 
ously broke the agreement made with the Baklaé Rajah, and 
instead of paying him half the revenue obtained from the island, 
refused to come to any understanding. The adjacent islands of 
Dakhin Shahbazpir and Patelé-bhanga were annexed an 
having in this lawless manner acquired possession of a small 
territory, Gonzales ruled both with wonderful tact and sagacity. 
Trade flourished, and the Portuguese became the envy a 
dread of the neighbouring princes. Good fortune also favoured 
them. A brother of the Mag Rajah, expelled from his country, 
sought shelter at Sondip. Gonzales married his sister, and 
after exacting a large sum of money, is suspected to have 
poisoned his brother-in-law. 
_ The unsettled state of the eastern frontier, and the devas- 
tation of the Delta by the Portuguese, forced Jahangir to trans- 
fer the seat of Government from Raj-Mahal to Dacca, In 1608, 
settled portion of the Empire, but farther south Mughals, 
Afghans, and rebellious vassals! contended for power. In 1610, 
the Mag Rajah made a treaty with Gonzales, in which it was 
agreed that the latter should command the allied fleets and 
act In concert with the Arakan army as it marched along the 
coast, and that all territory conquered should be equally 


; ' In a mosque at Farridpur is an inscription of the date A.H. 1013 
( 604), preserving the name of one ‘ Ajab Bahadur Khan Sultdni, but 
omitting all mention of an Emperor, which could only have been erected 
