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 HISTORY OF THE ARCHIPELAGO. ^89 lana, who founded in Java three considerable states, which were handed down in a long dynasty. , The man who conquered at least a million of inhabitants, and converted so numerous a people to a foreign religion, could have been no ordinary person. Of the European nations, the Portuguese fur- nish by far the most numerous list of distinguished characters, and the following names deserve parti- cular notice. Alphonso Albuquerque, Magellan, Antonio Galvan, and St Francis Zavier. Of these, or of any names connected with the history of the Indian Archipelago, incomparably the greatest, ex- cept that of Magellan, whose merits scarcely belong to our present subject, is that of the virtuous, the pious, the discreet, and heroic Galvan. He composed the odious dissentions of his countrymen in the Moluccas, introduced order and tranquillity into those oppressed islands, purity into the European administration, and instituted seminaries for education, of such ap- proved wisdom,that they afterwards became the model for similar ones established on the continent of In- dia, and in Europe. The high and heroic enthusiasm of his character is displayed in his successively chal- lenging to single combat the two principal kings of the Moluccas, to save the effusion of blood, and put a speedy end to the horrors of war. This great man, whose high endowments were not in request with his countrymen in the east, and were not appreciated in the west, was, after a short ad- VOL. //. T