Notes on the History and Antiquities of Chaul and Bassein |
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Antonio Antonio do Porto appears Baçaim Bandora Bassein bastions Bombay building built called Cambay Captain Caranja Careri caves century chapel Chaul Christian chroniclers Chronista de Tissuary church and convent city of Chaul coast College command Cunha Damaun Diogo do Couto Dominicans enemy English feet fleet fortified fortress Francis Xavier Franciscans Francisco friars Gama Garcia garrison gate gateway Gemelli Careri Gonçalo Governor guese Gujarât harbour hill Hindu honour India inscription Jesuits Joao Jordanus Kalyâna Khân king King of Portugal Konkan land latter Lond Lourenço Mahim Mahomedan Marâthâs Menezes miles missionary monastery native Nizâm Nizâm-ul-Mulk Nuno Nuno da Cunha pardaos Pereira Portugal Portuguese possession Pragana reis Revadanda river ruins Saimûr Salsette says Senhora seqq ships side siege Śiva Souza stone Suparâ supra Sylveira tank temple Thânâ town Translation travellers treaty Tungâr Vasco da Gama vessels Viceroy villages visited walls writes xerafins Zamorin
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Page 149 - There is much traffic here, and many ships and merchants frequent the place ; for there is a great export of leather of various excellent kinds, and also of good buckram and cotton.
Page 149 - With the king's connivance many corsairs launch from this port to plunder merchants. These corsairs have a covenant with the king that he shall get all the horses they capture, and all other plunder shall remain with them. The king does this because he has no...
Page 185 - Defaced by the Portugals who have this island also ; ' and Pyke in 1712 says : ' The Portuguese now fodder all their cattle there in the rainy seasons and to defend them from the violence of the monsoons : and lately one of their Fidalgos, to divert himself with the echo which is here most admirable, fired a great gun into it with several shots, which has broken some of the pillars.
Page 134 - ... in their proceedings have been governed by the plain dictates of reason, and of the laws of nature and of nations. They are engaged in a war with the Mharattas, and for their own safety and advantage they prosecute it with all possible vigour. They attack the Mharatta dominions wherever they judge an impression may be made with most advantage to themselves, or injury to the enemy, and when their armies come before the walls of a fortress where the Mharatta colours are flying, they are under no...
Page 125 - Notes on the History and Parsee. It is a quotation from Goez ' which SaZn •• 8 By' Dr? ierTn Da' states : " The persecution of the Portuguese Cunha. had made many Hindus, Mussulmans, and Parsees abandon their homes and live in the dominion of Shah Jehan, where they had liberty of conscience ; and that between Bassein and Damaun there are few natives, the greater part of the village lands being uncultivated.
Page 1 - There are idols in it of turquoise and baijadak,4 which are highly venerated. In the city there are mosques, Christian churches, synagogues, and Fire temples. The infidels do not slaughter animals, nor do they eat flesh, fish, or eggs ; but there are some who will eat animals that have fallen down precipices, or that have been gored to death, but they do not eat those that have died a natural death.
Page 238 - ... continent by a fmall rivulet. Its walls are pretty high, and about two miles in circumference around the city, which has a little citadel in the middle of it. It contains three or four churches, and fome convents and monafteries, with a college and hofpital. It is a place of fmall trade, becaufe moft of its riches lie dead and buried in their churches, or in the hands of indolent, lazy country gentlemen, who loiter away their days in eafe, luxury, and pride, without having the leaft fenfe of...
Page 61 - Chaul, in former • times', was a noted place for trade, particularly for fine embroidered quilts ; but now it is miferably poor.
Page 173 - Fathers accompanied us to the barge; afore the College gate stood a large cross, thwacked full of young blacks singing vespers. The town is large, the houses tiled ; it is called Bandora. At our department they gave us seven guns, which they have planted on the front of their College for their own defence, besides they are...
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