50 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |N.S., XVIII. 
On the 26th January, 1666, the garrison of that town 
capitulated and the Portuguese soldiers who had distinguished 
themselves in the campaign received grants of land.! 
With the capture of Chittagong and the pacification of 
the Eastern frontier the history of the Portuguese, as an inde- 
pendent and aggressive power, terminates. Throughout the 
uese Christians are still to be found, but none can oes 
relationship with the soldiers of the seventeenth century. * 
ollowing sketch of the Portuguese mission since its 
foundation in Bengal embraces the origin and history of these 
settlements. 
he Portuguese mission in Bengal was founded in 1599, by 
the Augustine, Archbishop of Goa. On arrival at Hughli ‘the 
surah and dedicated to “‘ Nuestra Senora del Rosario.” The 
first ‘‘regent’’ was Fre Bernardo de Jesus, and to this church 
all the other parochial churches in Bengal were affiliated. 
Since the beginning of the seventeenth century the Bishop 
of 8. Thomé, or Mailapair, in Madras, has been the head of the 
Bengal Chureh. In 16 606, Pope Paulus V made 8. Thomé an 
episcopal see and by consistorial letters ainaea to it the pro- 
vinces of Bengal, Pegu, and Orissa. The special mission to 
[p. 417] Bengal was vested in the Augustinian monks of Goa, 
upon one of whom the title and prerogatives of Vicar General 
were conferre 
A tradition is preserved by the mission, that in 1599, one 
of their number, Fre Luis des Chagos, was stopped on his way 
to Silhet by certain Christians who besought him to relieve 
them from landlord tyranny. On his return he bought the 
villages and lands of Nagori and Bhagori in Bhowéal, settling in 
them —— families of Christians, including a converted 
Brahmin. * A piece of land was also purchased at Narayan- 
dih, a ch of Dacea, which still 25 aan to the mission. 

! [For a fuller account of the conquest of Chittagong ve Shihabuddin 
Talish’s continuation = the Pathiyyah-i-ibriyyah Seaways y J. N. Sarkar 
in J.A.S.B., 1906, pp. 257-260, and translation in J.A.S.B -, 1907, referred, 
to in Ep ione note). H.E. 
If Dr. Wise had inserted the heat Massie before ‘* Portuguese 
Cheisteane, © this sentence would hav mn much nearer the truth, But 
apparently, from what he says later ae possibilty that the possession 
of a Portuguese name did not necessarily involve the owner’s descen 
H. 
[As Father Hosten points out, the date of 1599 is impossible. 
The real name of Fre Luis das Chagos (of the 5 wounds ) was Luis dos 
oO 
1867, Vol. II, p. 58 ) quoting from a report of the Father Provincial of the 
Augustines dated 1750. Fre Luis had bought land at Nagori to settle 
