Society and its friends. Having then sailed on his way back to India, the ship was taken by pirates in the Straits of SINCAPURA, and the Armenian was plundered of all his trifling possessions and reduced to a wretched state of bondage. He was ransomed, however, by the Portuguese of Malacca, and went on to (Western) India. Hearing there of his wife's death, he proceeded no further towards the Mogul's territories, but settled at a certain town of the East Indies called CIAUL, where he still survives at the date when this is written.'
1 Jarric's statement about Isaac is somewhat different. According to that writer he was taken by a Dutch ship on his way to Malacca. The captain was so struck by his history that he caused it all to be written down, and sent him to Malacca. Thence the fathers of the society sent him on to Cochin and Goa, where he fell in with. Father Pinner (who had been stationed at Lahore when Goes started on his journey). The Provincial of India gave Isaac one hundred pardaos, and he went with Pinner to Cambay (p. 226).
Chawul (Ciaul) is a port of the Konkan about thirty-five miles south of Bombay, which was an important place of trade in the sixteenth century.
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