The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s3.75
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s3.75
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The Portuguese, with Eurasians, women, and children, a total of 400, were enslaved and sent to live in the Shwebo villages called, after them, *bayingyi* (feringhi) villages. They were used as hereditary gunners to the king and were in charge of such cannon as he possessed. Their numbers were occasionally increased, as every white man who came into the power of the Burmese was sent there (p. 506), and by 1800 their descendants numbered two thousand, including women and children. Their chaplains were Goanese until 1721, when Italian Barnabites founded the European mission.