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“Old writers have said that the Portuguese, when they settled anywhere, began by building a church, the Dutch by building a fort, and the English by building a tavern. In Cochin some years ago, the progress of deterioration was still in evidence. The old cathedral erected to the glory of God by Albuquerque, or Vasco da Gama, was turned into a fort by the Dutch, and later, a British public house was superimposed on both.”
― Harry Hobbs, John Barleycorn Bahadur: Old time taverns in India