History of the Portuguese in BengalButterworth, 1919 - 283 páginas |
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Página 173 - Language, tho' much corrupted, yet it is the Language that most Europeans learn first, to qualify them for a general Converse with one another, as well as with the different Inhabitants of India.
Página 173 - Already the language of the Dutch, which they sought to extend by penal enactments !, has ceased to be spoken even by their direct descendants, whilst a corrupted Portuguese is to the present day the vernacular of the middle classes in every town of...
Página 48 - On one side of it was the river, and on the other three sides was a ditch filled from the river. European ships used to go up to the port, and a trade was established there. The markets of Satganw declined and lost their prosperity. The villages and districts of Hugli were on both sides of the river, and these the Europeans got possession of at a low rent.
Página 97 - Baleshwar, and send a man ashore with the news. The local officers, fearing lest the pirates should commit any depredation or kidnapping there, stood on the shore with a number of followers, and sent a man with a sum of money to the pirates. If the terms were satisfactory, the pirates took the money and sent the prisoners with, the man.
Página 61 - Lord [and maister]. neither esteeme they anything of justice, whether there be any or none, and in this manner doe certayne Portingalles dwell among them, some here, some there, [scattered abroade], and are for the most part such as dare not stay in India, for some wickednesse by them committed.
Página 49 - Village standeth as long as the Ships ride there, and till they depart for the Indies, and when they depart, everie man goeth to his plot of Houses, and there setteth fire on them, which thing made me to marvaile.
Página 117 - ... (silk) herb, which is of the brightest yellow colour, and brighter than silk itself; of this they make many stuffs of divers colours, and export them to all parts. The inhabitants, both men and women, are wondrously adroit in all manufactures, such as of cotton cloth and silks, and in needlework, such as embroideries, which are worked so skilfully, down to the smallest stitches, that nothing PEODUCTS OF BENGAL 287 prettier is to be seen anywhere.
Página 162 - ... were here welcomed and held in repute, and led a detestable life, utterly unworthy of Christians, going so far as to massacre and poison each other with impunity, and to assassinate their own priests, who were often no better than themselves. The king of Rakan, in perpetual terror of the Mughal, kept these people for the defence of his frontier at a port called Chatigon (Chittagong) assigning them lands and letting them live and follow their own devices. Their ordinary pursuit and occupation...
Página 119 - Leagues in Circumference, and has three Fathoms Water within a Mile of the Shore, and it may ferve to fhelter finall Ships from the raging Seas, and Winds of the South-wefl Monfoons.
Página 48 - Under the rule of the Bengalis (dar 'ahd i Bangdttydn) a party of Frank merchants, who are inhabitants of Sundip, came trading to Satganw. One kos above that place, they occupied some ground on the bank of the estuary. i Under the pretence that a building was necessary for their transactions in buying and selling, they erected several houses in the Bengali style.