52 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
Bhiyas, moved by the preaching of the monks, was persuaded 
to become a Christian. Being baptized as Don Antonio 
del ene he induced his wife and brethren to follow his 
exam 
Gees eae a Spanish Augustine monk, describing Dacca 
in 1641, mentions that families of Christians resided in. the 
suburbs, at Nardyandih, “ Manaxor,” and “ Pulgari,” sank that 
a handsome though small, convent, as well as a good church, 
eating animals slaughtered in an unorthodox way. The Nawab, 
Noricol.2 In [p. 418] 1679 the converts in Eastern Bengal 

been largely nominal and Don Antonio had constantly to be rescued 
ise the debtors’ prison at Dacca where he was consigned for debts, said 
ave been contracted in path aes 2 his ryots e Christianity. A 
168 85 the Provincia al of Goa ‘“‘ ne tarda pas a retirer ses missionaires de ce 
champ i d,’’ and Seatty in 1695, the sNinty remnants of the 30,000 
with some others whom ather himself had converted to the faith 
i) , 
ti ceo by Father Luis dos Angos to Nagori which had been bought 
s Father Asse) his Saat from being molested by non- 
Christian lasiiet on Antonio is said to have gone there too. and died 
in the end a goo fyi ti 
From a list of ear given in Father saa da Magalhais’ letter of 
paid Big thigh the vey BR! sh: nted by Father Hosten in the Catholic 
t October 17th, 1917, it appears thay. Don Antonio’s work of 
ot in 
h 
Sagordi, Simulia, see oe and Dugduga). From a mention of Sirot 
.E.S. 
Manrique s work in Bengal: Past and Present for 1915-1918.) . 
__* [In order to amplify Dr. Wise’s excerpt from Manrique’s Chap. v 

uo 
passages from Father — Cardon’s translation Bengal: Past and Present, 
1916, and afess XIII, pp. 2 and 3). ‘* The Cit “Bengal ck, or Daca, as they 
say in Portuguese, is the largest of all shiz. cities of Bengala....It is 
situated in a beautiful and very extensive plain on the bank of the 
famous and, at this place, fertilising Ganges. It extends for over a 
ng its t 
league and a half alo banks as its ornaments oth 
ds the ous suburbs of Manaxor, on one side, and of Narandin and 
Pulgari on the burbs are inhabited by Christians, and it 
is there my holy Order Jspwerr i a pretty, though small, Convent with a 
g that the inhabitants of this Gangetic 
emp: and at nadeudad amounted to more t uwo hundred 
thousand, without co g the strangers. They come hither he 
tho } ntin bers 
interests of their trade, to avail themselves of the e great opportunities 
the city affords them; Psst the sons of Mars, come to enjoy on these. 
