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place to be neglected by the Portuguese after they 
had once found their way thither; they sailed round 
it in 1508, and constantly anchored at it afterwards 
in their voyages to the East Indies. They built a 
fort in the province of Anossi, on a steep rock, 
which is situated on the bank of the fine river 
Franchere. It was near the village of Hatore, and 
had several large inclosures round it, with buildings 
on them. These were cultivated by the colony, and 
supplied them with all sorts of provisions; but the 
garrison not being sufficiently strong, and the natives 
being jealous of such an establishment so far in the 
interior, they were massacred to a man. 
In their intercourse with the island, they had 
prevailed on a chief, named Andian Thionban, to 
send his son Andian Maroarive, to Goa, in order to 
be instructed in the Christian religion. There he was 
put under the care of the Jesuits, was baptized, and 
so far initiated in Catholicism, as to be able to give an 
account of his faith—and he could also read and 
write after the European manner. Upon his return 
to his native country, he assumed the • sovereignty, 
(the office being vacant by death,) and then returned 
to his former paganism. He reigned some years, and 
lived on friendly terms with the Portuguese: but was 
at length killed by the French with a musket shot, 
when that people attacked the town of Franchere, at 
which he resided. 
Very little of the interior was discovered by the 
Portuguese, or by the Dutch, who also made a point 
