Ghap.XXlI. Malabar and Coromandel 
not be proteded, and our Revenues 
" fecured without a Fleet, fo that the 
" Ships employed in that Service might 
" be made ufe of upon other occafions. 
" You (hall confult and debate with Fran- 
cifciis XaveriiK^ whether it were not 
" pradicable tor the better increafe of 
the Chriflians, that the Pearl-fifhery 
might be permitted only to the Cbrifti- 
ans, with exclullon of the Mahome- 
tans m<\ Pagans : and as many among 
Extraordi. the Paruas^ who have embraced Chrif- 
nary Care tianity, meet with very ill Treatment 
"f^'^^Vi- from their Pagan Friends and Relati- 
" ons, and are defpoiFd of all ; thcfe you 
fliall aflift out of our Revenues, ac- 
*' cording as Michael Fas (hall judg it 
*' convenient. 
We have further underflood that a 
certain Royal Youth has efcaped from 
his Father or Uncle to Goa^ in order to 
" be baptized j as his Converfion is of 
" great moment, fo you fliall be very 
" careful of his Pei fon, and of his In- 
" ftruftion and Education in the College 
*' of S, PauJ^ and provide for his Enter- 
" tainment in Clothes, Attendance and 
other matters, futable to his Quality. 
*' He having notified to us in his Letter, 
" that he is the legal Heir of the Crown 
" of Ceylon ^ you fliall make due Enqui- 
" ry after that matter, and write to us 
your Sentiment thereof. The furious 
Attempts of the Tyrant of Ceylon a- 
" gainft fuch of his Subjeds as embrace, 
" Chriftianity, oblige us to command 
" you, to take a flow and fecure, but a 
fevere Revenge of him, to let the 
World fee, that we are ready to give 
" all imaginable Protedion to thofc poor 
" Creatures, who have renounced their 
Pagan and Diabolical Idolatries, It 
being a general Rumour here, that the oJ\>^ 
*' Images of our Saviour and the \J\xgm Baldaii/^^ 
" Mary are made and fold by the Pagans^ ^-y^^ 
a thing unfeemly and unbecoming the 
Chriftian Name, the fame ought not 
" to be allowed of. The Cathedral 
Churches of Coc/^m and Com/^j^^, which 
** have been building for a conkderable 
time, being (as we hear) going to de- 
cay, we command to be finiflied, and 
" covered with a good Roof, to keep 
out the Rains. Itisalfoour Plcafure, 
" that a Church dedicated to S. Tlmna>-i 
fhall be built in the Street of Noroa^ 
and that the Church of Sc. Cyv.t.^ late- • 
" ly begun to be built at Calapor^ fliall be 
" brought to perfedion. In the Ifle of 
" Cioran^ you fhall order a Church and 
" fome Meeting-Houfes to be built, for 
the conveniency of the new Converts 
" to be catechized in, and to be iiiftruc- 
ted in the Word of God. We could 
alfowifh with all our Heart, that Ido- 
*' latry might be banifhed out of Saljete 
" and Bardes ^ but in this matter you 
muft proceed with Caution, for fear of 
" exafperatingthe Minds of the People j 
which End maybe moft conveniently 
" obtained, by fhewing them with all 
*' imaginable Mildnefs, their grois Er- 
rors, and how inftead of the true God 
" they pay their Devotion to infenflble 
" Images and Idols. For the fame rea- 
" fon you fhall not negled to confer with 
" their Principal Men upon this Head, 
and to encourage fuch as embrace 
" Ghriftiariity by your Favour, Prefents, 
" and otherwife. It is our Will, that a 
" peculiar regard fhall be had to this our 
**■ Letter, iand the Contents thereof punc- 
tually obferved. 
CHAR XXIL 
A Defcripion of Tutecoryii and the Pearlfjberj. That City taken by the 
Hollanders. The IJle of Rammanakoyel, Adams-Br/Wg ; the Shape of his 
Foot imfrinted m a, Stone. Tindi. The taking of Negapatan, which ts hefieged 
hj the Naike, reduced to great Extremity by famine', once more attacked and 
maintained. 
The Paru" H E ParuM ever flnce this Union 
■is.arenow J[ with the Romifh Church, are fuch 
wryobfti- 2ealots in that Religion, that there are 
Romifli fcarce any hopes of ever bringing them 
Superfiiti- over to our fide V their Ignorance in Re- 
ligious Concerns being fuch, that be- 
lides the ufe of their Beads, and making 
the Sign of the Crofs, they know no- 
thing of the true Fundamentals of the 
Chrillian Religion they pretend to pro- 
fefs. In the Year 1 66 1. I was ordered to 
take a Journy from Tutccoryn to Contango 
to vifit the Churches along the Sea-fliore, 
and endeavour to introduce a Reformati- 
on there; but my endeavours proved in- 
efFedual by reafon of the great number 
or 
