ABSTRACT
D'Avalo describes Macau's location, forts, religious houses and parishes. The city of Macau is located at latitude twenty-and-a-half degrees north, on one of the small islands off the coast of the extremely wealthy empire of China. The city of Macau possesses five religious houses, four of which are of monks and one of nuns. The city of Macau has excellent shops, as well as many Chinese who sell clothes and silken material from house to house. Though the Chinese are timid people, they are very overbearing in their own country. Therefore, to avoid incidents and wrangling, the Portuguese stay aboard their own ships. From d'Avalo, Begin ende Voortgangh, The Dutch attack on Macau of 1622, though successfully repulsed, had put the Portuguese on their guard against further assaults. When the Dutch arrived with a mighty force of ships and soldiers in order to seize the territory of the colony, it was not yet walled about, but they were repulsed.
