NO. 41.— 1890.] REBELION DB CBYLAN. 



487 



Mombapa, keeping open house to the noblemen, his com- 

 panions, and to every soldier who wished to come ; for 

 almost all of them were younger sons.* Constantino de Sa 

 being the lord and the master of the house, they all availed 

 themselves of his aid and help, with the property he had 

 taken with him and of his credit ; for he had bound himself 

 over to take them to Goa at his own expense in a vessel he 

 chartered at Mombaga. 



In these days Don Jeronimo de Azevedo governed India with 

 the title of Viceroy, regarding whose person and deeds we 

 will relate hereafter. It being the year 1615, Constantino 

 de Sa arrived at Goa, when he began by behaving not like a 

 Bey ml f (as the undisciplined and newly-arrived in that 

 country were called), but as a knight and experienced soldier, 

 supplying the want of discipline with judgment and pru- 

 dence. The first thing he did was to separate himself from 

 the bad characters and to associate with the best, obliging 

 them to follow him through love by his words and deeds, 

 for he was courteous, agreeable, and liberal with all, but 

 with a few he was curt in his manner, and distant. It was 

 only the best and good men he treated with any familiarity, 

 and in the republic they are in the minority, especially in 

 India, where all the luxurious pleasures of Asia, the swelter- 

 ing climate, the intercourse with idolaters, the avarice of 

 traders, did not tend to keep him from minds which corrupt 

 and generally infect so easily, almost incapacitating for 

 virtues. If this, however, was what he generally had to 

 contend with, there were still many great and noble subjects 

 who came from the country every day, and there would have 

 been many more if the prince had taken as much care of its 



* I translate ;i hijos segundos " (second sons) as "younger sons," which 

 I think is the true meaning-. 



t Iteynol : a term formerly in use among" the Portuguese of Goa, and applied 

 apparently to " Johnny Newcomes," or " Griffins." It is from Meino, 11 the 

 kingdom (of Portugal)." The word was also sometimes used to distinguish 

 the European Portuguese from the country-born, and at a later date the 

 word seems to have been applied to Portuguese deserters who took service 

 with the East India Company. — Hohson Johson. 



