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Travels in India.
Book I.
portunicy ere they can difpatxh their mifchief; and that they cannot conveniently
meet the perfon to be murtherM, in the Fields or in the City* they are no fuch
Saints* but they will kill him at the very Alter, while he is at his devotions; of
which 1 faw two fatal prefidents, the one at 6^, the other at Daman. At Daman
three or four of thefe black Slaves perceiving fome perfons whom they were td
nmrther, atMafs in the Church, difcharg’d their Mufquets at them through the
windows, never confidedng what other mifchief they migi t do to any. other
perfons*againlt whom they had no quarrel or delign. The fame thing happen’d
at Goa-) where feven men were kill’d clofe by the Alter, and the Prielt that faid
Mafs was dangerouily wounded at the fame time. Nor do their Courts of Juilice
take any cognizance of thefe crimes, for generally the guilty perfons are the
clliefeft of the Countrey. As for their Suits of Law, there is no end of them,
for they are manag’d by the Canarins^ who are Natives of the Countrey, whofe
bufm'efs it is to follow the Law } the molt fubtil and crafty fort of people in the
World.
To return to the ancient Power of the Portugals in India, moll certain it is,
that if the A/c//Werj had never come among them, you Ihould not have feen a
bit of Iron in any Portugal Merchant’s Houfe } but all Gold or Silver; for they
needed no more than to make three or four Voyages to Japan, the Philip fin, or
Molucca Wands, or to China to enrich themfelves \ gaining at their return above
five or fix for one one upon rich Merchandizes. The very Souldiers as well as the
Captains and Governors enrich’d themfelves by Trade. There was not any per
fon, unlefs it be the Governor, who wcs not a f rader} or if he does Trade, it is
in another man’s name, for he has Revenue enough without it. Formerly it was
one of the fineft employments of the World to be Vice-Roy of Goa : and there
are but few Monarchs, that have Governments at their difpofal, which are equal
in value to fome of thofe which depend upon this Vice-Roy. The chief Command
is that of Mozambique for three years. In thofe three years the Governor gets
above four or five hunder’d-thoufand Crowns, and fometimes more, if in all that
time they receive no lofles from the Cafres. Thefe Cafres are people that bring
Gold for the Commodities which they carry away } and if any one of them
happen to dye, going or coming,whatever you trulled them withall is loft with
out redemption. The Governour of Mozambique trades alfo with the Negro’s
that inhabit all along the Coaft of Melinda , and they ordinarily pay for the
goods they buy, either in Elephants Teeth, or Arnbergreefe. When I was laft
in Goa, the Governour of Mozambique, who return’d to Goa after he had been
three years in his Command, had by him only in Ambergreefe, two hundred
thoufand Crowns, not reckoning his Gold, and his Elephants Teeth, which a-
mounted to a far larger film.
The fecond Government was that of Malaca, by reafon of the Cnftom which
was there to be paid. For it is a Streight through which all Velfels that are
bound from Goa, for Jaqon, China, Cochin china, Java, Macajjar, the Phillippin
Iflands, and many other places, muft of necelfity pafs. They may fail another
way by the Wand of Sumatra, toward the Weft, and fo through the Streight
Sonde, or elfe leave the Wand of Java to the North; but when the Ships
return to Goa, they muft fhew a difeharge from the Cuftom-Houfe of Malaca y
which obliges them t6 go that way.
d he third Government is that of Or mas, by reafon of the great Trade which
is there, and the Cuftom which all Ships are to pay that are bound in and
out of the Pcrfian Golf. The Governour of Or mm exacted great Tolls from
thofe that went to the Wand of Bakren to fifh for Pearls,'for if they, did not
take a Licence from hitn, he would fink their Veflels. The Per fans at prefent
exatt this Cuftom from the Englifi, who have a fmall Ware in that Trade, as
I have related in my Per pan Voyages. But though they are fevere enough to the
Merchants, their Cuftoms amount to nothing neer fo much as what the Portu^
guefes made of it. The Hollanders are in the fame condition at Malaca, not re
ceiving hardly fuflicient to pay their Garrifon which they keep there.
The fourth Government is that of Mofcate, the revenue whereof was very
great. For all Veffels that are bound from India, from the Per pan Golf, from
the Red $ea, and from the Coaft of Melinda, muft <x>me under the Point of
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