This edition of a detailed account of the city of Goa and its surroundings on the west coast of India, with a map of the city. In addition to the general history and description of Goa, with an emphasis on the Portuguese colonists, the book includes a two-and-a-half-page biography of the author; brief notes on the viceroys, governors, bishops and archbishops of Goa, from 1505 to the time of publication; information on the churches and religious orders; the islands and surroundings; and the people of various social classes. An essential reference work for any study of the city and a primary source for the early nineteenth century.
Denis Louis Cottineau de Kloguen was born in Nantes, probably before 1780, joined a Catholic religious order at an early age and spent most of his life abroad as a missionary. He lived in Baltimore, Maryland, for ten years and published a book there in 1806. He was in Bombay by 1827 and took charge of the Church of St Joseph in Colaba there when it was consecrated in early 1828. He died in 1830 in Madras, where the present book was published the following year. A Portuguese translation appeared in 1858.
THE colebrations at Goa arranged for November- December 1910 have afforded a suitable opportunity of reproducing a small but admirable volume on Goa written by Pore Denis I. Cottineau de Kloguen, one time chaplain of Colaba, who spent a long time in Goa studying the history of the old city, and then wrote a book which deserves to be called a classic. It was published at Madras in 1831 just after the death of the author, with a map showing the actual state of the city of Goa at the very time he wrote a state far different from now. For at his time the Religious Orders were still flourishing in the convents, their expulsion taking place only a few years later-i. e. in 1835; and many of the churches now totally disappeared, were then either intact or visible in their decay. With some omissions it was taken almost bodily by Fonseca into his Historical Sketch of Goa; and some of the parts omitted are just those which one would desire to have left in.
The text of this volume, having first been printed in the EXAMINER, is now issued as an EXAMINER REPRINT -thus doing good service to librarians and students of acclesiastical history, most of whom may never have come across Cottineau's treatise.
The whole Edition has been taken over with exclusive right of sale by Messrs. B. X. Furtado & Sons of Bombay, to whom therefore all orders should be addressed.
The text has been copied entire, and typed almost in the original form. The map has been reproduced photographically from the original, except that the explanations and references which surround it have been slightly modified in form and set up in type, for greater convenience. Readers should always bear in mind that all features of Goa as actually seen by the author refer to about the year 1827.
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