A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 7 | Page 7

two Jesuits, 100 soldiers, and presents for the king and
prince, worth 4000 ducats. They set out in the beginning of February
1618; and being under the necessity of watering at the Isola de Cisne,
they found three ships sunk at the mouth of the river. On landing,

twenty Hollanders were found about two leagues from the shore,
guarding the goods they had saved from the wreck. They made some
opposition, but were forced to submit to superior numbers, and were
found to have a large quantity of cloves, pepper, arms, ammunition,
and provisions. Andrada carried the prisoners, and as many of the
valuable commodities on board his pink as it could contain, and set fire
to the rest, though the Hollanders alleged that they had come from the
Moluccas, with a regular pass.
When Andrada arrived in the port of St Lucia, the two Jesuits came to
him both sick, declaring that it was impossible to live in that country,
where all the men who had been left along with them had died.
Andrada sent the letters with which he was intrusted to the king and
prince, by the servants of Don Jerome; and in return, the king sent 100
fat oxen, with a great quantity of fowls and honey, and six slaves, but
would not come himself, and it was found that his son had reverted to
Mahometanism. The tribes in Madagascar called Sadias and Fansayros
are _Mahometan Kafrs_[16], and are attached to the liberty allowed by
the law of Mahomet, of having a plurality of wives. The king was of
the Fansayro tribe, and was now desirous to destroy Andrada and the
Portuguese by treachery; incited to this change of disposition by a
Chingalese slave belonging to the Jesuits, who had run away, and
persuaded the king, that the Portuguese would deprive him of his
kingdom, as they had already done many of the princes in Ceylon and
India. The Kafrs came accordingly to the shore in great numbers, and
began to attack the Portuguese with stones and darts, but were soon put
to flight by the fire-arms, and some of them slain, whose bodies were
hung upon trees as a warning to the rest, and one of their towns was
burnt.
[Footnote 16: In strict propriety, this expression is a direct
contradiction, is Kafr is an Arabic word signifying _unbelievers_; but
having been long employed as a generic term for the natives of the
eastern coast of Africa, from the Hottentots to the Moors of Zeyla
exclusively, we are obliged to employ the ordinary language.--E.]
Andrada carried away with him Don Jerome, the king's nephew, and a
brother of his who was made prisoner in a skirmish with the natives,
who was converted, and died at Goa. All the Jesuits agreed to desist
from the mission of Madagascar, and departed along with Andrada

much against his inclination; and thus ended the attempt to convert the
natives of Madagascar to the Christian religion.
SECTION XIV.
_Continuation of the Transactions of the Portuguese in India, from
1617 to 1640; and the conclusion of the Portuguese Asia of Manuel de
Faria._
Towards the end of 1617, Don Juan Coutinno, count of Redondo, came
to Goa, as viceroy, to succeed Azevedo. During this year, three ships
and two fly-boats, going from Portugal for India, were intercepted near
the Cape of Good Hope by six English ships, when the English admiral
declared that he had orders from his sovereign to seize effects of the
Portuguese to the value of 70,000 crowns, in compensation for the
injury done by the late viceroy Azevedo to the four English ships at
Surat. Christopher de Noronha, who commanded the Portuguese ships,
immediately paid the sum demanded by the English admiral, together
with 20,000 crowns more to divide among his men. But Noronha, on
his arrival at Goa, was immediately put under an arrest by the viceroy,
for this pusillanimous behaviour, and was sent home prisoner to Lisbon,
to answer for his conduct.
In the year 1618, the Moor who had been seen long before, at the time
when Nunno de Cunna took Diu, and was then upwards of 300 years
old, died at Bengal now 60 years older, yet did not appear more than 60
years old at his death. In 1619, a large wooden cross, which stood on
one of the hills which overlook Goa, was seen by many of the
inhabitants of that city, on the 23d of February, to have the perfect
figure of a crucified man upon it. The truth of this having been
ascertained by the archbishop, he had it taken down, and got made from
it a smaller cross, only two spans long, on which was fixed a crucified
Jesus of ivory, and the whole surrounded by a golden glory; the