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trouble enough -, ncvenheMs^Alhuquerque made himfelf Mafter of it in Fe!f' Zaiaim,?xiBCQ 
ruary One thoufand five hundred and ten, through the cowardize of the In- 
habitants, who put him into poffeffion çf the Town and Fort , and took an 
Oath of Allegiance to the King of Vortus^al. 
This Town hath good Walls, with Tôwers and great Guns, and the Illc 
k felf is Walled round, with Gates towards the Land, to hinder the Slafes 
from running away , which they do not feaj: (towards the Sea) becaufe all 
the little Hies and Peninfules that arc there, belong to the Tortuguefe^ and arc 
full of their Subjeds. This lOe is plentiful in Corn, Beafts and Fruit, and 
hath a great deal of good water. The City of Goa is the Capital of all thofe 
which the Vortuguefe are Mafters of in the Indies. The Arch-Bifliop , Vice- 
Roy and Inquifitor General , have their Refidence there ^ and all the Go- 
ver'nours and Ecclefiaftick and fecular Officers of the other Countries ( fub- 
je£l: to the Vortuguefe Nation in the Indies ) depend on it. Albuqutr<^ue was bu- The death of 
ried there in the year One thoufand five hundred and fixteen, and St. Francis -Albuquerque. 
of Xavier in One thoufand five hundred fifty two. The River of Mendoaa l^^j^^^^^- °f 
is held in no lefs veneration by the Bramens and other Idolaters , thanG<«»- xavier!'^ ° 
es is elfèwhere , and at certain times , and uf>on certain Feftival days, they 
lock thither from a far,to perform their Purifications. It is a great Town, 
and full of fair Churches , lovely Convents , and Palaces well beautified -, 
there are feveral Orders of Religious, both Men and Women there,and the 
Jefiiits alone have five publick Houfes i few Nations in the World were fo 
nich in the Indies as the Vortuguefe were, before their Commerce was ruined 
by the Dutch , but their vanity is the caufe of their lofs -, and if they had 
feared the Dutch more than they did , they might have been ftill in a con- 
dition to give them the Law there , from which they are far enough at 
prefent. 
There are a great many Gentiles about Goa^ fome of them worfliip Apes, 
and I obferved elfewhere that in fome places they have built Pagods to thefc 
Beafts. Moft part of the Gcntiles,Heads of Families in Fiziapour, drefs their '^^^ "^y of the 
own Viftuals themfelves j he that do's it having fwept the place where he j^n^^heir V'^' 
is to drefs any thing, draws a Circle, and confines himlelf within it, with ^^uais. 
all that he is to make ufe of ; if he ftand in need of any thing elfe, it is gi- 
ven him at a diftance, becaufe no body is to enter within that Circle, and 
if any chanced to enter it, all would be prophaned , and the Cook would 
throw away what he had dre{red , and be obliged to begin again. When 
the Viduals are ready, they are divided into three parts, Thefirft part is 
for the Poor, the fécond for the Cow of the Houfe , and the third Portion 
for the Familie , and of this third they make as many Commons as there 
are Perfons -, and feeing they think it not civil to give their leavings to the 
poor, they give them likewife to the Cow. 
CHAP. IV. 
Of the Kingdom of Golconde, 
Of Bagnagar. 
THe moft powerful of the Kings of Decan , next to Viz.iapour , is the Qolconda, 
King of Golconda. His Kingdom borders on the Eail fide, upon the 
Sea. ofBengala-^ to the North, upon the Mountains of the Countrey of 
Orixa-^ to the South, upon many Countries of Bifnagar, or Ancient Nixr- 
ftngue^ which belongs to the King of Vtz,iapourt, and to the Weft, upon the 
Empire of the Great Aipgul, by the province of BalagatCyWhere the Village of 
€ahar iSj which is the laft place of MogoUfian, on that fide. There are 
very 
