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divided between the two contracting parties. The campaign 
began, Lakhipar and Bhaluah were overrun, but on meeting the 
Mughal army the Arakanese, owing to the shameful defection 
of the Portuguese, were totally defeated. Gonzales, a witness 
of the disastrous battle, [ p. 414] fled to Sondip, after putting 
to death all the captains of the Mag fleet. The Mughals re- 
occupied. Bhaluah without opposition, but did not follow the 
fugitives to Chétgaén. To consummate his villainy Gonzales 
waged war against his late allies, plundered and burned their 
villages, and, sailing up the Arakan river, attempted, but un- 
successfully, to capture the vessels anchored there. ! 
p to this time Gonzales had refused to obey, or 
of Arakan. A fleet was accordingly sent under command of 
D. Francis de Menezes Roxo. It sailed up the Arakan river on 
the 3rd October, but the Mags, assisted by some Dutch vessels, 
offered a stubborn resistance, and obliged the Portuguese to 
retire. In November, Gonzales arrived with fifty sail, when a 
combined attack was made, but De Menezes being killed, the 
assailants fell into disorder and retreated. 
Gonzales returned to Sondip, but his power and popularity 
were gone, and his dispirited followers quarrelling among them- 
selves, allowed the Mags to take the island. After ruling nine 
years, Gonzales was stripped of his possessions ; ‘‘ his sovereignty 
passed like a shadow, his pride was humbled, and _ his 
villainies punished. ”’ * 
e Portuguese never recovered from this defeat, although 
their flag waved for many years unchallenged in the Delta, and 

Allg 1H, Pei, 
Ch. IX, p. 179 of the Spanish edition. There is an English translation of 
HH. 
ria y Sousa 
Gonzales took refuge at Sriptir, and sent George de Sousa, accompanied 
bv the Superior of the Sondip Mission to obtain the permission of the 
Nawab of Dacca, to 
regarded as the original Catholic missionary in Dacca. Katrabo, on the 
Lakhya River, is also mentioned about the same time (1616) as a Christ- 
n the news of the capture of Hughli in 1632 reaching Dacca the local 
Maulvies beat Father Bernard of Jesus so severely that he died a few days 
later. Another Bengali Christian of SripGr by name Garcia was taken 
prisoner to Agra where he died in 1634. (dosson, op .cit., pp. 322, 323, 363 
and 364). 
I aa also informed by the late Father Altenhofen that Zaleski in 
Les Martyrs del * Inde ( Lille 1900, p. 340) records othe instance of 
the ; pries ac e was beaten by Maulvies so severely 
that after two days, he died of his wounds. ‘ P. Manuel das Chagos, August- 
inian parish priest at Dacca, dies a martyr in this town, when visiting 
some Christian prisoners of the infidels in order to hinder their apostacy on 
Dec. 5th 1650.” 8.] : 
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