[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 281.8.3 # Storia do Mogor 281.8.3 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 281.8.3 - **Language:** English ### [281.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.3) The wealth possessed by their reverences among the Portuguese in India is immense, and I can assure you that at Goa, Chaul, Thanah, Bassein, Diu, and Daman their income much surpasses the king's. For example, at Goa they have three hundred and sixty thousand pardos a year, while the king has only three hundred \[thousand\]. It is just the same in all the countries in India under that prince's domination, without speaking of the river of Scene (Sena) and of Mozambique, from which the king draws nothing or very little, while they get everything. For in the island of Cabaceira alone, which lies in front of Mozambique, they hold fourteen villages, which yield them a rent of one hundred thousand cruzados. Besides, it is known for a fact that the property they possess in this country (? India) is worth to them a million of seraphins or a little more. This statement is admitted by them themselves at times, without mentioning le tour du baton et cetera, uncertain items which amount to three times more than the above. - [Previous: 281.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.2) - [Next: 281.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.4) - [Up: 281.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.281.8.3) · Pramāṇa