iin ited 
a 
1922.] Father A. Monserrate, 
[Fol. 152v.] 
JHS. 
Informacion de la Isla de Cho- 
ran y la Isla de Diuar. 
Estas son dos islas pequenas 
q’ estan junto de Goa a la p® 
del norte, y no las diuide mas 
, . 
q vn rio. Destas no ay mas 
tancia; solam® q’ assi como 
Salsete se gouierna por aquel- 
los 24 de 12 aldeas, cada vna 
octrina en cada vna tiene 
mas 400. nifios, q’ a e 
ser Vv enos X’pianos 

! Later addition. 
® Later addition ; difficult to de- 
r. 

ciphe 
S.J., on Salsete, etc. 365 
[ Fol. 152v.] 
JESUS. 
Information about the Island 
of Choran and the Island of 
There are two small Islands 
by a river. There is nothing 
to be said about them except 
what we said about Salsete : 
r 
the same, although there are 
always differences in so 
matters of little importance : 
only that, whereas Salsete is 
governed by the 24 from the 
12 aldeas, each one of these! 
[is governed] by ten Gancares, 
nes. There must be in 
each of them three thousand 
ouls. there were in 
each more than 30 pagodes, 
wi much revenue. Now 
3] 
the diligence and zeal of Vice- 
roy Don Constantino’, and the 
school of the doctrine ® in oa 
They are ministered to and 
taught solely by the Fathers 
of the Company.’ 
1 Of these two islands. 
2 Don Constantino de Braganga, 
7th Viceroy: Jeft Lisbon, April 7, 
1558; governed 3 years and8 days, 
Cf. Padre Manoel Xavier, S.J., op. 
it., p. 68. 
"3 bi the Christian Doctrine or 
techism. 
Oy ba the conversion of the people 
