"[The English traveller John Fryer, referring to conditions in Goa in 1675, writes as follows:] The Mass of the People are Canorein though Portuguezed in Speech and Manners; paying great Observance to a White Man, whom when they meet they must give him the Way with a Cringe and Civil Salute, for fear of a stochado."
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