Storia do Mogor 61.5

61.5

There is also on that coast a town called Negapatao (Negapatanam), and outside the town on the sea-beach is a large temple (pagode) known as the China Pagoda. In the year one thousand six hundred ninety and two there was a war between the Dutch and the owner of that territory. Lourenço Piter, who at that time was governor of Negapatanam and of all the Choromandal coast, ordered this pagoda to be destroyed ; and he converted it into a battery, on which he mounted eight pieces [100] of artillery. More than half of the pagoda was knocked down after the greatest exertions. They discovered in the pagoda, between the walls, many images of a metal which looked like gold, and up to this day no one knows of what kind this metal is. The images were Chinese.