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ecclesiastical history of these few years is carried on by a Carmelite mission¬ 
ary, Vincenzo M ar i a, in his Viaggio all’ Indie Oriental! 
The expeditions, military and ecclesiastical, to Abyssinia ; the rise and 
fall of Christianity in Japan ; the rivalry with the Spaniards and Dutch in 
the Malay Archipelago ; and the wars in Ceylon, may fairly be treated as 
episodes in the History of Portuguese India. 
Regarding Abyssinia, the chief authorities are : 
Francisco Alvares, Terras do Preste Joao. 
Tellez, Historia deEthiopia. 
Joao dos Santos, Ethiopia oriental. 
G e d d e s, Church History in Ethiopia ; La C r o s e, Christianisme 
d’Ethiopie ; Rudolf’s Historia iEthiopica. 
Regarding Japan,—K amfer’s well known book is. generally accepted 
as the best authority. 
There is a work in Spanish“ Cliristiandad del Japon,” by S i c ar d o, of 
which there are copies in the public library at Goa. There are also collec¬ 
tions of “ Epistolse Japanicae,” as of “ Epistolse Indicse.” The Rev. H. J. 
Coleridge states that M. Leon Pages is about to publish a work on the 
subject. 
The Chinese mission, though organised from Macao, was not so connect¬ 
ed with politics as the Japan mission, and the early missionaries were mostly 
Italians not Portuguese. There is a description of China by Faria y Sousa, 
founded on the Memoirs of Semedo, and there is a separate account of the 
commencement of the mission under Ricci. There is also the great work of 
Du Halde. 
Regarding the Malay Archipelago, most English accounts of the islands 
give a sketch of the early Portuguese rule. Crawford’s works, and S t. 
John’s Indian Archipelago may be cited as the most useful. R a f f 1 e s’ Java 
scarcely refers to the Portuguese, but his Life and Journal gives a native account 
of the arrival of the Portuguese at Malacca. I have not yet had an oppor¬ 
tunity of referring to Marsden’s Sumatra. Faria y Sousa, besides his refer¬ 
ence to Antonio Galvan, mentions Bartholomew d e Argensola as an 
authority, though an unsafe one, for the History of the Spice Islands. I have a 
French translation of Argensola entitled “ Conquete des Isles Moluques par 
les Espagnols, par les Portugais, et par les Hollandais.” The third volume 
containing the conquest by the Dutch is a continuation of the original work. 
There is also an English translation of Argensola. There is another account 
of the Moluccas, by Gabriel Rebello, in the sixth volume of the 
“ Noticias para a Historia e Geografia das nacoes ultramarinas.” 
Regarding Ceylon, our information may be considered abundant and 
satisfactory. Sir Emerson Tennent devotes the first two chapters of 
his second volume to the Portuguese and Dutch rule, and refers to two Portu- 
