ABSTRACT
Chatigam [Chittagong] is one of the principal cities and ports of Bengala. 2 It is in what is known as the kingdom of the Mogos, 3 and is under the sway of the King of Arracão, the most powerful of the rulers in all Bengala, 4 who has made a fortress here, and has set up a king under his hand. Almost all the port has been given over to the Portuguese who live there, and to whom the King is very well inclined, as they have assisted him in his wars, and have been of service to him in many other ways. To some of them he has given stipends amounting to thirty thousand crusados, and he has declared his intention of making one of them a king under his hand in Bengala, which he could very well do, being the lord of many kingdoms, and possessing more than two hundred leagues of coast-line. His word is, however, but the word of a Gentile. He shows the Portuguese these favours now, because, being in need of their services, he is anxious to content them; but it is greatly to be feared that when he has no further use for them, his behaviour will be very different.
