Any Goanetter knowing about the family of the mid-19th century Saligao Goan, Cincinnatus D'Abreo, who was settled in Karachi, may please get in touch with the Goa-based senior priest-historian Fr. Nascimento Mascarenhas (najoma8 at gmail dot com).
The late Lt Gen Eric Alexander Vaz also from Saligao, wrote in his memoirs that Cincinnatus D'Abreo purchased 4,000 acres outside the Karachi Cantonment and developed it into a planned township, later known as "Cincinnatus Town." Many Goans lived there. Rgds, v * * * In every way, the Goans of Bombay were part of the great melee that was this metropolis, distinct perhaps in the way communities often are, holding on to their own traditions but merging slowly nonetheless and forming the thin thread of nationhood that would eventually become India. -- Selma Carvalho, in *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
