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the settlement, when on a public visit to the queen of Attinga: the 
sanguinary deed Avas committed near her palace; some were even 
murdered in her presence, whom she in vain attempted to rescue 
from their fury, although at that time sovereign of the country. 
There was still a nominal queen of Attinga when 1 resided at 
Anjengo; Avho, like the rajah sovereign of the Mahrattas, was little 
more than a state prisoner, Avhile the king of Travencore, the 
usurper of her dominions, imitating the peshwa of Poonah, styled 
himself duan, or minister to the queen of Attinga. 
I shall say nothing more of the Moplahs, thus dispersed along 
the coast of Malabar from Tellicherry to Cape Comorin; but the 
Syriac churches, or Christians of St. Thome, settled in Travencore, 
are objects of great interest and curiosity. I occasionally heard of 
such a people in the neighbouring country of Anjengo, but I had 
no idea of their number or respectability: as our accounts gene- 
rally came through the medium of the Portugueze priests and Ro- 
mish missionaries, it was not to be expected their intelligence would 
be impartial or favourable. 
My own knowledge on this interesting subject being limited, I 
shall make a few extracts from Mr. W rede’s satisfactory account 
of the St. Thome Christians; who were not unknown to Vasco de 
Gama, and the first navigators to India: to whom the unexpected 
discovery of Christians on the Malabar coast, Avas a matter of the 
greatest surprise and satisfaction; for they were not more enthu- 
siastic in extending their military glory and conquests, than in 
propagating their religion among the infidels in the remotest quar- 
ters of the world. Their exultation, hoAvever, Avas temporary; for, 
upon nearer investigation, they found that these Christians folloAved 
