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154 GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
CHAPTER IX.
adieu to panjim.
At a time when public attention is so deeply
interested in the twin subjects of colonization and
conversion, some useful lessons may be derived
from the miserable state of the celebrated Por-
tuguese settlement ; even though our present and
their past positions be by no means parallel in
all points, and though a variety of fortuitous cases,
such as the pestilence and warfare which led to
their decadence, cannot or may not affect our more
extended Indian empire.
The Portuguese, it must be recollected, generally
speaking, contented themselves with seizing the dif-
ferent lines of sea-coast, holding them by means of
forts, stations, and armed vessels, and using them
for the purpose of monopolising the export and
import trade of the interior. In the rare cases
when they ventured up the country they made
CHAPTER IX.
adieu to panjim.
At a time when public attention is so deeply
interested in the twin subjects of colonization and
conversion, some useful lessons may be derived
from the miserable state of the celebrated Por-
tuguese settlement ; even though our present and
their past positions be by no means parallel in
all points, and though a variety of fortuitous cases,
such as the pestilence and warfare which led to
their decadence, cannot or may not affect our more
extended Indian empire.
The Portuguese, it must be recollected, generally
speaking, contented themselves with seizing the dif-
ferent lines of sea-coast, holding them by means of
forts, stations, and armed vessels, and using them
for the purpose of monopolising the export and
import trade of the interior. In the rare cases
when they ventured up the country they made