The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c23.92

v1.c23.92

These facts show how strange was the situation of these poor folks of the Fishery Coast. Oppressed with taxes and depredations by their natural lords, they had to be protected by a foreign people, whose sovereign in Europe took great interest in their welfare. When that monarch was informed of this new exaction, he wrote to his Viceroy as follows: "Manoel de Cunha, father of the Christians of the Fishery Coast, I recommend you to help those Christians as much as possible, and to employ all possible means to hinder the said Naique from making such extortions any more" 1.