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António de Faria
António de Faria was a 16th-century Portuguese explorer and privateer. He was the first European to encounter the Mekong River of Southeast Asia in 1540. He anchored in Da Nang in 1535 and later tried to establish a major trading centre at the port village of Fai-Fo (current day Hội An, Vietnam).
Born in Campo de Coimbra, Alqueidão marshland, in Figueira da Foz, near Montemor-o-Velho.
Leaving for India, he went to seek his fortune in the Far East, exploring above all the coasts of China, more as a pirate than as an explorer, a privateer of the eastern seas, gaining a reputation as fearsome and terrible. He roamed Malacca as a ship's captain.
In 1535, Captain António de Faria was the first European (Portuguese) who, departing from Da Nang (later known as Tourane), where the Portuguese had landed in 1516, in what was then called Cochinchina (now Vietnam), established, or tried to establish, a trading post in the coastal city of Faifo, about 20 kilometers from present-day Da Nang. It was hoped that António de Faria would be able to create a permanent Portuguese enclave such as those at Macau and Goa; however, this attempt failed, as the trading post never flourished. He was also responsible for a misunderstanding of the name for Vietnam, calling the region "Cauchi", a name derived from the Chinese characters for Vietnam: Giao Chi. To avoid confusion with his colony of Cochin (Kochi), in India, he added 'China' to the region's name. Thus, the name Cochinchina was born. Later, the French would also use that name, just for the southern part of Vietnam.
It was in 1537, in Patane, that António de Faria met Fernão Mendes Pinto, Captain of another Embassy of his fifth cousin Pero de Faria to the King of Patane, like himself. However, António de Faria brought some clothes from India that no one bought there, so he decided to go to the Kingdom of Siam (currently Thailand) to exchange them for gold and stones from the island of Calimantan (currently Borneo). Fernão Mendes Pinto went with him. António de Faria accompanied him on his travels and explorations during much of his journey through the East and was one of his companions, being also a native of Montemor-o-Velho and being mentioned by him in his book Peregrinação (Pilgrimage), between Chapters XXXV and LXIX, where he became one of the leading characters, as well as in the film Peregrinação. Allied with Chinese pirates, fighting others, he roamed the seas of China.
Fernão Mendes Pinto and António de Faria, in one situation, wanted to know news from Liampó, "because at that time there was an armada of four hundred junks in which one hundred thousand men went by order of the King of China to arrest the men of ours who used to go there, to burn their ships and villages, because he didn't want them in their land, because he was informed again that they were not as faithful and peaceful people as they had been told before.". But that presumption was mistaken, as this fleet had, after all, gone to the aid of a Sultan in the Gotō islands.
Another time, after an attack that António de Faria repelled, six corsairs were left alive, to be put "to torment" later. The prisoners, tied up in the basement, chose to bite their throats.
His adventure path is marked by the pursuit of the pirate and Moorish privateer Coja Acem or Hoja Asan, the "dog of Coja Acem", self-titled "spiller and drinker of Portuguese blood" to whom de Faria had sworn revenge for having stolen his farms. "And, with this fervor and zeal of faith, attacking Coja Acem as one who had good will, he gave him, with a sword that he had, in both hands, such a great gash on the head that, cutting the hat he was wearing, knocked him to the ground. And turning to him with another setback, cut off both his legs so that he could no longer stand up."
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António de Faria
António de Faria was a 16th-century Portuguese explorer and privateer. He was the first European to encounter the Mekong River of Southeast Asia in 1540. He anchored in Da Nang in 1535 and later tried to establish a major trading centre at the port village of Fai-Fo (current day Hội An, Vietnam).
Born in Campo de Coimbra, Alqueidão marshland, in Figueira da Foz, near Montemor-o-Velho.
Leaving for India, he went to seek his fortune in the Far East, exploring above all the coasts of China, more as a pirate than as an explorer, a privateer of the eastern seas, gaining a reputation as fearsome and terrible. He roamed Malacca as a ship's captain.
In 1535, Captain António de Faria was the first European (Portuguese) who, departing from Da Nang (later known as Tourane), where the Portuguese had landed in 1516, in what was then called Cochinchina (now Vietnam), established, or tried to establish, a trading post in the coastal city of Faifo, about 20 kilometers from present-day Da Nang. It was hoped that António de Faria would be able to create a permanent Portuguese enclave such as those at Macau and Goa; however, this attempt failed, as the trading post never flourished. He was also responsible for a misunderstanding of the name for Vietnam, calling the region "Cauchi", a name derived from the Chinese characters for Vietnam: Giao Chi. To avoid confusion with his colony of Cochin (Kochi), in India, he added 'China' to the region's name. Thus, the name Cochinchina was born. Later, the French would also use that name, just for the southern part of Vietnam.
It was in 1537, in Patane, that António de Faria met Fernão Mendes Pinto, Captain of another Embassy of his fifth cousin Pero de Faria to the King of Patane, like himself. However, António de Faria brought some clothes from India that no one bought there, so he decided to go to the Kingdom of Siam (currently Thailand) to exchange them for gold and stones from the island of Calimantan (currently Borneo). Fernão Mendes Pinto went with him. António de Faria accompanied him on his travels and explorations during much of his journey through the East and was one of his companions, being also a native of Montemor-o-Velho and being mentioned by him in his book Peregrinação (Pilgrimage), between Chapters XXXV and LXIX, where he became one of the leading characters, as well as in the film Peregrinação. Allied with Chinese pirates, fighting others, he roamed the seas of China.
Fernão Mendes Pinto and António de Faria, in one situation, wanted to know news from Liampó, "because at that time there was an armada of four hundred junks in which one hundred thousand men went by order of the King of China to arrest the men of ours who used to go there, to burn their ships and villages, because he didn't want them in their land, because he was informed again that they were not as faithful and peaceful people as they had been told before.". But that presumption was mistaken, as this fleet had, after all, gone to the aid of a Sultan in the Gotō islands.
Another time, after an attack that António de Faria repelled, six corsairs were left alive, to be put "to torment" later. The prisoners, tied up in the basement, chose to bite their throats.
His adventure path is marked by the pursuit of the pirate and Moorish privateer Coja Acem or Hoja Asan, the "dog of Coja Acem", self-titled "spiller and drinker of Portuguese blood" to whom de Faria had sworn revenge for having stolen his farms. "And, with this fervor and zeal of faith, attacking Coja Acem as one who had good will, he gave him, with a sword that he had, in both hands, such a great gash on the head that, cutting the hat he was wearing, knocked him to the ground. And turning to him with another setback, cut off both his legs so that he could no longer stand up."