South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
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We Have At The Present Moment A Notable Example Of This In Two Christian Traitors Now Residing In This City,

Who have disclosed all our secrets to the Portuguese; and therefore we most humbly petition that you would be pleased

To accept from us an hundred pieces of gold, and to issue your commands that these traitorous Christians shall be slain."

[Footnote 107: This king of _Gioghi_ was probably the chief bramin in the southern part of India, a species of patriarch or pope of the braminical idolatry, similar to the king of _Joga_, formerly mentioned, in Guzerat, in these travels of Verthema. In a future part of our collection we shall have a more favourable opportunity of explaining the hierarchy of the Hindoos. - E.]

When this oration was repeated to the _king of Gioghi_, he immediately accepted the gift, and consented to the prayer of the petition, and appointed two hundred of his followers to put the Milanese to death. These men, that they might not be suspected by the devoted Christians, came in small bodies to their house, only ten at a time, as if to demand their customary reward. But on seeing so great a number of men assembled about their house, the Christians began to suspect that they were in search of something beyond their usual reward or offering, wherefore taking to their arms, they so bravely defended themselves, that they slew six of the assailants and wounded forty: But at length some of the _Gioghi_ or Jogues, shot them both with arrows from cross-bows, one being sore wounded in the head and the other in the body; and as soon as they saw them fall, they broke into the house and cut their throats. Then taking the warm blood into the palms of their hands, they drank it up, using the most contumelious expressions against the Christians. After this murder, the concubine of John Maria came to Cananore with her young son, whom I bought of her for eight pieces of gold, and had him baptized by the name of Lorenzo, as he was christened on the festival of St Laurence.

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