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Southern Tibet : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER XVIII.
BENEDICT GOËS AND ANTONIO DE ANDRADE.
In about A. D. 1600, the learned Fathers at Goa did not know that Cathay
and China were two different names for one and the same country, and as they had
heard many years before that somewhere in the N.E. of India there existed a vast coun-
try, the population of which was nearly entirely Christian, they seriously contemplated
the plan to send missionaries thither with the object of »discovering Cathay«.¹ An old
Mohammedan merchant who had passed some 13 years at Kambalu or Peking, told
Father JÉRÔME XAVIER at Goa, what he had seen and heard of Christianity in those
regions.² Such rumours had also been heard from Tibet and China and were be-
lieved to have some kind of foundation. When Father Xavier, himself, together with
BENEDICT GOËS, accompanied Emperor Akbar on his journey to Kashmir, he heard
»that the kingdom of Tebat, which expanded eastwards from Kashmir all the way to
Chetai or Catay, contained great numbers of Christians and many churches with
priests and bishops«.³
At about this time Goës happened to be at Goa. Emperor Akbar had, for the
third time, invited Jesuit Fathers to come and settle at his court, and the three who
went were Jérôme Xavier, Emanuel Pinheiro and Benedict Goës, who arrived at
Lahore in May 1594. Akbar had great confidence in Goës, and therefore used him
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