Storia do Mogor 338.23.7

338.23.7

Wishing to return to Pondicherry, he (Bouynot) encountered two large Dutch ships, which attacked him. He defended himself bravely, and killed the captain of one of those ships and a number of the crew. He then arrived safely in company of the four [French] ships referred to above, which had overtaken him on the voyage. The [English] sloop and the above-named captain, Mr. Welly (Wooley), were captured a second time by the four ships, but on his showing the passport given him by Monsieur Bono (Bouynot) they received him kindly. Monsieur le Baron [de Pallières] wrote out a second passport [226], and sent him off with great civility and offers of service. Already the careful reader will have beheld in my Fourth Part (IV. 166, 173) the confusion into which the Christians of Madras had been thrown by interested parties who unjustly claimed to take possession of and destroy that congregation. Grieving over these calumnies, I wrote to the Lord Archbishop Primate of Goa, informing him thereof in detail, in the hope of his introducing some cure for these disorders. From him I received a reply, dated on the 22nd of January in this present year, 1705, and it is as follows : Senhor Nicolao Manuchy,