Chap.XXI. Malabar and Coromandd. 
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lief, having above fix fooc Water ^ the 
£r.j/wr« had lofi: all her Anchors, but by 
good foriiine got clear of the Sands ^ 
the Sea-horfe had taken fire, but was fooa 
extinguidvd, fo that we came off with 
the lofs of three Sloops only. The fury 
of the Tempeft beginning to allay on 
the third day, juft at the very time when 
we were coming from Prayers out of 
the Church, and by midnight the fame 
being quite ceafed, a folemn Thankf- 
giving was order'd to be kept the 23.:/ 
of No'vcmb. 1661. when I picach'd upon 
the Text of Pfal.66. 12. By this tinie 
it being judged fit for our Fleet to de- 
part, a convenient Garifon was left in 
T7;e Fleet the place under Capt. Kocks and I\lr. Nj- 
fails for bof, for the defence of the Fortifications 
Cochin, of jjjc Ciiy^ which were lately made of 
Earth. 
The King- The Kingdom of Trevancor borders 
dotn of upon that of CoulMg: All along the 
Trcvan- Sea-fhore inhabite thQ Par uas^ who being 
for the moft part Chriftians, you fee the 
Shore all along as far as Comoryn^ and 
even beyond it to Tutecoryn^ full of little 
Churches, forae of Wood, others of 
Stone. Thefe People owe their Conver- 
fion to Francifciis Xaverius^ he being the 
firft v^ho planted the Principles of Chri- 
ftianity among them j they being fo much 
taken with the reafonablenefs of the Ten 
Commandments, that they receiv'd Bap- 
tifm in great numbers, tho an acciden- 
tal Quarrel betwixt a Paruas and a Ma- 
hometan prov'd a ftrong Motive to their 
Converfion : whence it is that John ds 
Lucena fays, the Dijferenccs arifen be- 
twixt the Jews and the Egyptians, proved 
the means of the delivery of the People of 
Cod^ and of the recovery of thetr Spiritual 
and Temporal Liberty j fo by God's Di- 
rection a Quarrel which happen'^d betwixt 
a Paruas and a Mahometan, prov'd the 
delivery of the firj} from their Spiritual and 
Temporal Slavery, 
tonvcrfm The Paruas being forcly opprefs'd by 
of the I'd- the Mahometans^ one John de Crus^ a Na- 
ruas. tive of Malabar, but who had been in 
Portugal^ and honourably treated by John 
the then King of Portugal^ advifed them 
to feek for Aid at Cochin againft the 
Moors ^ and to receive Baptifm. Ac- 
cordingly fome of the chief Men among 
them (caird Patangatys in their Lan- 
guage) were fent upon that Errand to 
Cochin^ where being Idndly receiv'd, they 
( in honour of him who had given this 
Advice) took upon them the Sirname of 
Cm, a Name Hill retained by moft Per- 
fons of Note among the Paruas. In 
fhort, being deliver'd from the Moorifh 
Yoke, and the Pearl'fifhcry (which for- -aVV^ 
merly belong'd to them ) rellor'd to the Baldai'j': 
right Owners, above 200C0 of them re- ^.^/-N-f 
ceiv'd Baptifm, 
But tho they were baptiz'd, moH of 
tlicin being deficient in the knowledg of 
the true f undamentais of the Chriltian 
Religion for want of Teachers, tliey bad 
in a little time fcarce any marks of 
ChriHianity left among them except the 
Ceremony of Baptifm j as Maffceus^ John 
dc Lucena^ and Michael Fas in his Speech 
to Francifcus Xaveriiis fufficiently teHify. 
For the Portngucfts being too eager in 
baptizing thefe People, provided they 
could fay by heart the Creed^ Our Father, 
and u4ve7nary^ and being unprovided with 
Teachers to infl-rucl: them, they foon re- 
turn'd to Paganifm i fo that upon this 
fcore the Romijh Priells need not talk fo 
big as they often do. 
John the then King of Portugal hciVigcarc oftht 
fcnfible of this defedt, did all that in him K'mg of 
lay to remedy this Evil, by fending divers ^ome^il 
young Scholars to the Univerfities of Sa-^^^^^^^^^^'T 
lamanca, Par'vs and Conimbriay tobeedu- "^^ 
cated and fitted for the Millions into the 
Indies. About the fame time Ignatius 
Loyola^ the Founder of the Jefuits Order, 
began to be famous at Rome, for having 
with his Society made a Vow to preach 
the Gofpel throughout the World : 
Whereupon the King of Portugal or- ■ 
der'd Peter Mafcarenbas his Amballador 
there, to confer upon that Head with 
Ignatim, and to defire fix' Mifiionaries for , 
thQ Eafi' Indies two being only granted, 
Simon Roterigitis a Portuguefe (who had 
ftudied at Paris at the King's Charge) 
and Francifcm Jfpikota Navarrus, fir- 
named Xaverius^ were felecfed for that 
purpofe but the firfl: being feized by a 
Quartan Ague, and forc'd to ftay at Lif- 
bon, Xaverius ( after having receiv'd Xavcnua 
Pope Pau?s Benedidfion ) fet out 1 540. goes to the 
for the Indies. India. 
He was no fooner come thither, but 
having underftood the deplorable State 
of the Paruas from the mouth of Mi- 
chael ras, he did not reflfatisfied till he 
might deliver them out of their Dark- 
nefs : For this purpofe having had feve- 
ral Conferences with John ^Ibuquertius 
Bifhop of Goa, and A^artin Alphonfo de 
Soufa the Viceroy, he obtain'd leave to 
go among them ; for tho he appear'd 
there in the quality of the Apoftolical 
Nuncio, yet would he pay his due Re^ 
fpedfs to the Civil Government. 
He left Goa in the beginning of No^ corms a- 
vtmber 1 542„ in Company of Francifcm mong the 
du Mancimj and two young Interpreters P-^fuas^ 
educa- 
