48 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
the imperial Nawarah dared not meet their “ Galliasses ' in fair 
fight. Bernier,* however, makes mention of another Portu- 
guese adventurer who acquired temporary power. ‘It was 
” he says, ‘“‘who at this time took Sondip, 
Fra Joan, acted the petty sovereign for several years, having 
managed, God knows how, to get rid of (se defaire) the command- 
ant of the place.”’ 
For the next fifty years the Portuguese lived by piracy, 
and by making raids upon the peaceful villages of Bengal. 
Some entered the military employ of the Arakan monarch, mene 
commanded expeditions sent against Bengal, Pegu, and Siam ; 
others joined the oe artillery, and Jahangir was wont ae 
say that one Portuguese soldier would beat tite of his own 
people. [p. 415] ee — Shah Shuja in his ill-starred 
rebellion of 1660, and w is cause was lost became Dakaits 
infesting the Sunderbuns, cad lying i in ambush i in a creek nea 
Sagar, still known a8 ** Rogues’ River,” waylaid vessels beat- 
ing up the Hughli. 
In 1662, the Saree crew of the “ Ter Schelling” ° 
arrived at Bhaluah, where they found Muhammadans speaking 
Portuguese, and the Moorish commander protected by a body- 
guard “consisting wholly of Christians negro-born, and sub- 
jects of the King of Portugal,’ who were treated with especial 
honour on account of their valour. Other writers, however, 
give a different estimate of these ‘“‘ negro-born” Portuguese, 
and in the te century their usual sobriquet was 
judgment, and, except under very exceptional circumstances, 
the Portuguese Eurasian has never proved himself a valiant 
soldie 


| Tavernier describes the ‘‘Galeaca”’ as a long swift boat, often 
with fifty oars a side, and two men to each oar. It was generally gaudily 
painted and ornamented with blue colours and gold foi 
2 ** Historie de la minlp or ‘ -dkomriges des Etats an Grand Mogol.”’ 
esas 670. The incident is not mentioned by Faria y Sousa, whose his- 
y ends with 1640; and as ee rnier left Tndia in 1668, it must have 
meres between these dates. [if it ever rp vate als Bee 
3 ** Voyagede Wouter Schouten, ” ii, 168. [Josson records (op. ctt,, PP- 
O 
[This pry fort at Saugor was first established ‘after the fall 
of oa in 1632 (Josson, ae cit., p. 363) 
A Relatio 
ling under het | landt ~ par Amsterdam, 1675, 4to. The author 
is Frans van der Heiden. 
