Thus Perished The Brave Antonio De Faria;
A Just Judgment, Doubtless, For The Sacrilegious Robbery He Intended To
Have Committed.
No less unfortunate was the end of the city of Liampo, where Antonio
had been so nobly received, falling a sacrifice to the base and
insatiable avarice of its inhabitants.
Lancelot Pereyra, judge of that
city, having lost a thousand ducats by some Chinese, went out with a
body of troops to rob and plunder others in satisfaction of the debt.
This unadvised and barbarous procedure brought the governor of the
province against the city with 80,000 men, and in four hours burnt it to
the ground, together with 80 ships that were in the port. Twelve
thousand men were slain, among whom were 1000 Portuguese, and three
millions of gold were lost. Thus scarce any thing was left of Liampo
but the name; and thus what the Portuguese gained by their valour was
lost by their covetousness. Liampo had above three thousand catholic
inhabitants, almost the half of whom were Portuguese. Those who survived
this cruel execution, obtained leave in 1547, by great presents, to
settle in the province of Chincheo, in a village which began to
flourish in consequence of a rich trade, but it came to the same end
with the other.
SECTION III.
Transactions during the Government of Martin Alfonso de Sousa, from
1542 to 1543.
In the year 1542, but whether under the government of De Gama or De
Sousa is uncertain, Antonio de Mota, Francisco Zeymoto, and Antonio
Peixoto, while on a voyage to China, were driven by a storm among the
islands of Nipongi or Nijon, called Gipon by the Chinese, and
known in Europe by the name of Japan.
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