356 Hamilton’s account of the east indies,
Ihot fired from a battery at them, to put them in mind of their duty. Two leaguesto the fouth of Aguada are the Marmagun iilands, being five in number, and run aleague into the fea. The two innermoft are fortified, to command the entrance ofthe river of St. Lorenzo, which is a branch of Goa river, parting about five leaguesfrom their mouths, and compofe the ifland called Goa ifland.
This country belonged formerly to the kings of Vifapore; but in the fifteenth cen-tury, when Albukerk fettled the Portugueze colonies in India , he purchafed the iilandsof Goa and Salfet, which lie contiguous to Goa , from the King, who did them manylingular fervices, which afterwards were repaid by ingratitude.
About the year 1660, when the Dutch had a war in America and India , with thePortugueze, the Dutch fent a fquadron, to try if they could add Goa to the reft oftheir Indian conquefts, but found its avenues fo well fortified, that it was thought im-practable to land. Their fliips were forced to lie at a good diftance from Aguada andNos Senhor de Cabo, and fo continued riding at anchor triumphantly, without action,except a little diverfion they had with a Portuguefe bravo, who, with a fmall Ihip offorty guns, would needs pais through the Dutch fleet as they lay at anchor; but theyfoon made him fenfible of his rafti folly, by finking his Ihip, and either killing or drown-ing him and all his crew.
When the Portugueze and the Sevajee had war, (I think that Conde de Villa Verdewas then viceroy,) there were fo few foldiers, and fo many priefts, that he was obliged,to take recruits for his army, out of the church ; but the King of Portugal was forcedto recal him for that great offence.
Between Goa and Salfet there is a little river that is another branch of the river ofGoa , which difembogues about a league to the fouth of Marmagun, at a village calledBangricoal, and affords a little harbour for fmall veflels, from which place the ifland ofSalfet ftretches five leagues along the fea-fnore in a fine level.plain, planted with cocoa-nut trees and churches. The product of this ifland is as that of Goa , arrack andfait. The churches and monafteries are feminaries for black Romifh priefts, and thecountry, befides them, produces good ftore of hogs and poultry. At Cabo de Rama,which is contiguous to Salfet, are the limits of the dominions of the Portugueze on thatpart of India .
Chap. XXII.— Gives an Account of the Sundah Rajah's Dominions , the Produff , Re-ligion and Guftoms of his Country, with Obfervations on his War with the Englijh Eqft~-India Company , in anno 1718.
CABO de Rama, or, as the Englilh call it, Capa Ramus, begins the limits ofthe Sundah Rajah’s country to the northward, and has a caftle on the cape to fecurehis frontier; but there is no river or harbour for fhipping, till we come to Sevafeer,and that is but a bad one, though it has the cover of a large caftle with few guns in it.But,
Carwar, which lies feven leagues to the fouthward of cape Ramus, has the advan-tages of a good harbour, on the fouth fide of a bay, and a river capable to receiyefhips of 300 tuns. The Englifh have a factory here, fortified with two baftions,and fome fmall cannon for its defence. The Rajah is tributary to the Mogul atprefen t, but formerly was a part of Vifapore’s dominions, before Aurengzeb con-quered that country. This Rajah’s dominions reach from Cape Ramus to Merzee,about fifteen leagues along the fea-coaft, and fixty or feventy leagues within land.
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