Df the tiiUt attu gjianu <BM. 
Si 
ta tsfQ honour them totth the name of Xa * 
tohich is tofapalifing, tuljcrebp thep had 
tbc names of Adclxa,Nifamoxa,nnd Con* 
tumixa, ano all tbc Kings continued fo tuitb 
tbc name of Xa, lobicb in Perfia is a Ring, 
and Ifmael is a p?oper name, toberebp Xa 
Ifmael, and Xa Thamas are as mud) to fap 
as Ring Ifmael, and Sting Thamas, and of 
fheSEurhcs and Rumes arc called Suffy o? 
Soffy , tobicb fignifietb a great Captaine* 
SChe Kings of Occam alfo baueacuttome 
toben tbep toill bono? a man, o? recompence 
their feruice done, andrapfe bimtodignitto 
and honour. 2Cbep glue him the title of Nay* 
que, tobicb fignifietb a Captaine, as Salua 
Nayque and Acem Nayque.^nd tobe thep 
toill giue a man an honourable title, o? falm 
tation, thep call him Rau, as Chitarau* 
tohich is to fap s tf rong Sting, and Inch like tv 
ties, tohich among them is a great honour* 
&lfO Adclham o? Hidelcam , is Called Sa* 
bayujtohich fignifietb Seigneur 0? Ro?d,fo? 
the Blland of Goa had a Captaine 0? < 0 ouer* 
ttour,thaf toas Ro?d of tbetotone* toben the 
pojtingales toanne it fieff, called Sabayo,as 
the po?fmgaIes Cb?onicles of their Indian 
conquers doe malte mention,toho(e houfe 0? 
palace to this dap in the Cittie of Goa,ts 
the mquifiticn houfe, and a place tohich ttam 
deth bettoame the greatChurch and the fame 
houfe s to as pet called the Wallace of Sabayo* 
The z 8* Chapter* 
Ofthetovvneandllandeol Goa* chiefc 
. Cittie of India* 
Hi^e Citie of Goa, is the spe* 
Jtropolitan ojehtefe Cittie of 
[all the &?fentall Indies, 
tohere the pojtingaleshaue 
their trafftque, inhere alfo 
’the fllicerope, the ^rebbiflj 1 
®p,the Rings CoumeI,and Chauncerie bane 
their refidence, and from thence are all pla* 
cesirtthe 3 D?fcntall Indies, gouemed and 
ruled. SUhere is Itfcctoifc the ttaple fo? all In* 
dian commodities, tohether all to?ts of £®ar* 
chants doe reto?t, commmg thether both to 
hup and fell, as out of Arabia , Armenia, 
Perfia, Cambaia , Bengala, Pegu* Sian, 
Malacca, Iaua, Molucca, China* $ C,2Che 
Cittie and 31 Iand of Goa, ipeth finder 15, de* 
grits, on the $ o?th hide, and is diftant from 
the Cqumocfiall, (bp the toap that the ipoi- 
tingales Shippes do come thether from Mof* 
fambique)4oo*iniles. It is an Blland lohob 
Ip compacted about trail) a riuer,and is aboue 
*h?to miles great# Ipeth irathin the coaff of 
Thei.Booke. 
mmm 
the firme Iande, fo that the llafid, toith the 
&>eacoa(f of the firme land, doe both reach 
as farre each as other into the &ea. Bit is on* 
Ip feperated from the firme land, bp an arme 
ofthe^ea, 02 oftherpuer, that runneth in 
bp the iiioifh fide of the totone, and fo round 
about the Blland to the &>outhfide, inhere if 
entereth againe into the £>ea , and is tit 
fo?me almoff like a halfe SPomc. 2 Ehe rpuer 
runneth euen Onto the Cotone, and is tndib 
ferentb:oade, there are betinane the firms 
land and the lland, certaine fmall jlandes 
that are all inhabited bp tbe naturallbo?ne 
countrfmen,and on the other fide of the toirai 
the rpuer is there fo fmall, that in Rummer 
time,bp loading to the fcntos ininatcr,a man 
map paffe it oner on forte. £>n the tohich fide 
the^land hath a toall toith certaine Bub 
toarhes,tohich $ l! 9 o?fingaIes of late peaces 
haue caufeo to be made, to defend them from 
the firme land in time of toarre, as it often 
happeneth, fo? it hath diuers times borne be- 
fiegcD bp Dialcan 0? Hidalcam * at the 
mouth and theentrieof the rpuer. Cn the 
$o?th fide Ipeth the land ofBardes,tohich is 
high land, tndcr tohich land the po?tingaIes 
doc^nkerfafelp out of all danger, and there 
thep haue a place to lade and finlade their 
toarcs-SChto land of Bard es is alfo tnder the 
po?fingall fnbieition, and is full of tmillages 
inhabited toith people that arc of the firme 
land,lpmg aboue it,called Canarijns, tobtf 
fo? the molf part are Ch?tfiians, but obferue 
their otone manner of apparell, tohich is ter 
goe all nafecdjtheir p?iuie members onelp co= 
uereo, SThis land is full of Indian ^alrne 
fras, tohereon the Indian $ufs called Co¬ 
cos doe groto, as alfo all the other glands lp^ 
(ng in the rpuer. Chis land of Bardes, is fe¬ 
perated from the firme land bp a fmall rittcr, 
tohich to to fittle,that it cannot almoff be otb 
ccrned from the firme land» Cn the @>outb 
fide of the Blland of Goa ,toher the riuer run^ 
neth againe into the §>ea, there commethe- 
uen out toith the coatf a land, called Salfet* 
te, tohich to alfo tmoer the fubteetton of the 
po?ttngales, and is inhabited, and planted 
both totth people and fruite, like the land of 
Bardes, and is UUetoile parted toith aUttle 
rpuer from the firme land. Bettocene this 
land of Salfette, % the Blland of Goa, lie alto 
tome fmall 31 lands, all full of Indian pilme 
frees, and bp the mouth 0? (ffiieof the rpuer, 
Ipeth an Blland tohich to called Goa Velha, 
that is old Goa,from tohencc there commetlr 
nofpeciall thing, neifherto it muchinhabt> 
ted. SShofe lands of Bardes and Salfette,ar® 
bp the Rings of i 3 o?ttngale let out to farmer 
and the rents therof are imploped to the pap- 
mmt of the archbilhop, Clopfrers, piefts^ 
if 2 mice* 
