The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-09-03
0ID Goa THE GOLDEN


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Pus umes q tae portuguese IN lno'a
You could NOT nave seen piece OF non
in any merchants house. but all gold
and silver. They coined immense quan.
titles Of the precious metals and used
to make pieces Of workmanship in
them Tor expostation. The very SOL
diers enriched themselyes by COM
MERGE.
But then at last came the inquisiti1n,
which celebrated Its terrible and deadly
rites with more fervor and vehemence
Mt Goa than IN any other place. Reli-
gious persecution, pestilence and wars
with the Dutch, disturbances arising
from an unsettled government, and,
above an. the slow but sure workings
Of the shortsaehted policy Of the Portu-
guese In intermarrying and Identifying
themselves With the Hindoos Of the
lowest caste. made her fall az rapid %
her rise Was sudden and predictions.
In less than q century and half aft.
,er Da Cans had landed on the Indian
shore the spleudor Of Goa had departed
forever. The Inhabitants fled before
the deadly fever which soon fastened
upon the devoted precincts Of the city.
and In 1883 the yiceroy transferred his
Headquarters from the ancient capital
to Pariina. about eight miles distant.
Soon afterward the religious orders
were expelled, leaving their magnia-
cent eonyents and churches NIL bnt ut
terly deserted. and the inuuisition was
suppressed upon the Recommendation
of the British government.
The Mace Il now grass grown vii.
derness. But sin the Arm and well
built causeways Of this olden city and
Tits molderinr splendors are REMINISCENT
Of echoinp pareants and the trnmp Of
armies which once sounded there. AZ
we tread the ancient wharf. d long,
hnoatl road. lined Win ! double row 81
trees and fnced with stone. 4 more sue.
eestive scene Of desolation can hardly
be conceived. Everything around teens
With melancholv < saocIciations the verv
r1,stlinps Of tho trees ana mn. mur al
the waves sound like / sdirre for the de
parted grandeur Of a city.
Towering above mass Of ruins !
solitary gateway tanks the entrances
Ito the Strada Diretta, the Strnight
street, % called because almost all the
streets IN old Goa are laid out in cur.
/ vilinear form. It was through this
portal surmounted by the figures Of
St. Catherine and vasco da Cana that
1.-THE newly appointed viceroys Of Goa
passed ii triumphal procession to the
palace
Beyond the gate q level road, once q
populous thoroughfare. leads to the
Terra di Sabaio, 4 large square front
ing the Primacial. Of Cathedral Of st
Catherine, who became the patron
saint Of Goa when the place was cap
tured by Albuquerque on the day Of
her festival. Groves Of cocoanut palm,
and mango TOPICS now incumber thu
ground once covered by troops Of horse.
The wealth. the busy life and the lux
ury Of the old place are dead. Kitel
and cobras infest the crumbling hall.
which once resounded with the ban
uuet ana The dance. and naught but Z
few old monks anu iiii;H;2s keeps vigi
amid tn desolation today.
INT Cha possesses one treasure q
great interest. This 10 the tomb O
! francis Xavier, the great Jesuit mis-
| sionarv to the east, It Is to be found /,
| the church az Ron Jesus. II "a a mas
| terpiece Of art which is lost to ,all bn
/ the Casual visitors to old Goa. Som
!: have yentnretl "a suggest that no othe
/ mausoleum in India or even in Asia 81
cent the Tai Mahal can equal IT. 1t
hnilt a. rich marble Of yariegated col
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