_ 345 _ receive the waters of baptism within a month. Father Belchior Gonçalves(A). It is the cause of all this which was not related last year because it was done a short while ago. The population of Bassein is large and the King has a very substantial income(B). It is seventy-two leagues from Goa. (A) Cf. Doc. 44, 1, where Father Gonçalves states that in two years 400 were converted Christian. (B) Simon BOTELHO makes many references to Barzeu’s income. Archives of the State of India 138ff. Cf. also Documenta Indica Vol. I p. 75.
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