Storia do Mogor 100.10

100.10

From Rajmahal I continued my journey on the river to the city of Daca (Dhakah), which was reached in fifteen days from leaving Rajmahal. The city of Dhakah is the metropolis of the whole province of Bengal, where a viceroy always resides who wields the greatest power, although when I reached it Mir Jumlah, the then viceroy, was not there, he having gone to make war on Assam, a campaign of which I will speak farther on (II. 74). The city of Dhakah, without being strong or large, has many inhabitants. Most of its houses are made of straw. At this period there were two factories, one English and the other Dutch ; there were many Christians, white and black Portuguese, with a church served by a friar called Agostinho.