South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
 -  In the mean while, the ships
continued to batter the fort, but were so effectually answered that some
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In The Mean While, The Ships Continued To Batter The Fort, But Were So Effectually Answered That Some Of Them Were Sunk And Sixty Men Slain.

After this the enemy abandoned the enterprise, and the citizens of Macao built a wall round the city with six bastions; and, as the mountain of _our Lady of the Guide_ commanded the bastion of St Paul, a fort was constructed on its summit armed with ten large guns.

We have formerly mentioned the destruction of the Portuguese cities of _Liampo_ and _Chincheo_, in China, through their own bad conduct. From that time, they lived in the island of _Lampazau_ till the year 1557, when they were permitted to build the city _Macao_, the largest belonging to the Portuguese in the east after Goa. They had been in use to resort to the island of _Sanchuan_, on the coast of China, for trade, where they lived in huts made of boughs of trees, and covered with sails during their stay. At this time, the island of Goaxama, eighteen leagues nearer the coast of China, being wild and mountainous, was the resort of robbers who infested the neighbouring part of the continent, and, as the Chinese considered the Portuguese a more tolerable evil than these outlaws, they offered them that island on condition of extirpating the nest of thieves. The Portuguese undertook this task, and succeeded without losing a man. Then every one began to build where he liked best, as there were no proprietors to sell the land, which now sells at a dear rate.

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