368 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |N.S., XVIII, 
de los Moros, a hazen asaltos 
con animo en tierra firme, vy 
les van a su sie a quemar 
y destruir los pagodes, q’ por 
esta causa se an metido los 
Mouros por la tierra adentro ; 
Pace *s< G.* on Di° de 
Meneses les mando dar se 
n d 
fuesen fauorecidos y_honr- 
dignidades 
Visoreyes, 
vy breuem® toda la Seatilidad 
reducida, con q’ esta mucho 
mas segura y rica la India. 
Informacion de las Malucas. 
Malueas son infinitas 
Morotai; y de 150, como 
Morotia, y otras pequenas de 
.4., como Ternate, y 20. como 
Amboino, Tidor, Oliazer, Nu- 
zelao, Athua, Ouma, Abouro. 
Nombro estas porq’ en to- 
A Ree letter ; probabl 
for Gobernador Sonn fe 
or 3 words illegible at th 
o of the paper. Z es 
* Y trinta appears to be effaced. 
country against the Moors, 
Christians were favoured and 
honoured....with  dignities 
and offices by the Viceroys, 
fidalgos, and eee as His 
Highness comman the 
Christianity would qremie in- 
crease, an is Highness 
that India is safer and richer. 
Information about the 
Malucas. 
The Malucas consist of an 
infinite number of eae 
ong them 
(and thirty ?) leagues big, as 
0, as Morotia ; 
as Amboino, Tidor, Oliazer, 
Nuzelad, Athua, OQuma, an 
bouro. 2 I name these, be- 



1 Don Diogo de Menezes, 
Gitonions governed 9 months (el 
Nov., 1577-22 Aug., 1578), Cf 
Padre Manoel Xavier, 8.J.,; 
3, Div 7, 
Cocaniaté 3 is devoted to the 
Mission of the Molucas. I do not 


