 A section of the Portuguese came from Sandwip and Arakan and settled on the bank of Ichamati River (about south of Dhaka) at the present-day Muktarpur–Mirkadim area in Munshiganj, which bears its historical name of "Feringhi Bazar".They were mainly involved in the salt trade.In 1713, priest Anthony Barbier spent Christmas at a church in Narinda, a neighborhood in Dhaka.