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GOA.
Goa fs the most valuable of Porta cm ese
colonial possessions, the conquest of which
dates from 1510. -Over and over again there
have been uprisings of ihe soldiery or the
police there, and on one ooossion— in 1846—
there seemed a grave probability of a rupture
with the British fhrrrnmorf of Bombay. A
quarter «f a century ago, in oonsequenoe of a
rebellion, ihe Aatire troops were disbanded,
for the ^mple but adequate reason that the
Hortugaeao authorities were completely
'unable to pontrol them or rripreee their extra?
garrisoned by a small battalion ot European
soldiers and « body of semi -military polioe.
Quite reoently, however,' it appears that a
native Goanese army has ones more been
formed to serve as: a recruiting foroe for
those Afrioan settlements to which Lisbon
clings with «ooh despairing pertinacity. It
is ipconseqnenoe of tnwidulikeof the4£rio*b
^eryioe ihatJhe wSdl^s Sh Goa have risen op ?
4nmntizty^afw^^^x^v^or, Iw 1hmy-
have all alobg xttbtended that ihev were
enlisted ariginauy for work in India only,
and, . aooorcling to one rurooor, they broke
-their allerianoe with the cry, * We ' are not
going to mocambique I Wersfoseto go to
the /War 1' The original distnrbanoe took
plaoe In the middle of September when a
whol^ battallon, after disarming sentries and
kilUng. thepolioe, made, |^ihe open oountry
and «jfeenobed:=r^benmyes,J^ .among the
tHokly-woodeA bills. The governor ofifered
them an amnesty, but refused to makea&£
^rTravel1en5 haTOMteS^us that afe the end b!
the sixtbenlh bentujyt 'when Sn^ish sne^r^
ohwtswore.fint;-sbtqrgiingute^jna1ntein''4;
^il^'iibihlng^i^re'Bnhi -Or:i»6rB^
3Sple^Bid-7^ot evsn the fabled giorirt Oal
*mtta, or Agra, or Delhi— braid be found
from the Himalayas to Ceylon, than this -^ty, ,
reared by the fostering handbf fee adteniuiw
Albuquerque and the eariy Viowoys.
' Golden. Goa-r-Goa Poarada/ was a'plaoe.
of untold wealth find stately ttsgnifioeuoe,
where the priests vied with the military oom
snanders in importanoe, where the hnbour
waa fullof proeUwa argosies, and the aw»rd
of Portugal kept the country under ao iron
-away. Then, eocn after X600, began the long
?strturgloVith the Dutch, who' were 4estihoa ,
to roe in the eosle bf nations as Lisbon de
clined. ®me aft«r time G*a was all Ant
bapturedi and onoe^4n narrowly
esoaped entire des^rnotion by a ~3£ahratta
horde. Bat itwnsthe privateers from Hol
land whioh Bapped the sources of ita wealth
by crippling its oommeroe: and before ^the
seventeenth oentury ended old Goa had been
deaetted aufl a smaller and poorer populalion
vu established in a new oity tailed Panjim
at |Ue mouth of the river* . K ,
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