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¹ From Fr. M. Roiz to Fr. J. Alvarez, St. Thome, November 1st, 1606, Ap. C, No XII; From Fr. B. Coutinho to Fr. C. Aquaviva, St. Thome, November 4th, 1606, Ibid., No. XIII; From the same to the same, same date, Ibid., No. XIV; From the same to Fr. J. Alvarez, Vellore, November 11th, 1607, Ibid., No. XVIII; Litterae Annuae of the Province of Malabar, 1606-1607, Ibid., No. XXVI. Two years later Venkata received in his court at Vellore a Portuguese merchant dealing in emeralds. From Fr. B. Coutinho to Fr. C. Aquaviva, Vellore, October 11th, 1608, Ap. C, No. XXIII; Guerreiro, Relacam Annal...... no anno de 606. & 607., p. 105. It is worth while to compare this account based on impartial contemporary documents with the following extract from Whiteway, The Rise of the Portuguese Power, p. 28: “When St. Thome was held to ransom for the intolerant acts of some Jesuits and Franciscans, the Raja of Vijayanagara kept such faith with the Portuguese that, as one of them says, such humanity and justice are not to be fund among christians”.