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he served some time under the command of the Viceroy Almeyda , till he was himself made governor of the Portuguese conquests in those parts , which was in the year 1510 , during which time the whole business was to settle trade , build forts , and erect factories along the coasts already known , that is , all the east side of Africa , the shores of Arabia , PersiaGuzaratCambayaDecan , > Canaraand Malabar ; and , indeed ,
, , , , they had employment enough , if well followed , to have held them many more years . But avarice and ambition know no bounds ; the Portuguese had not yetpassed Cape , Comorin , the utmost extent . of the Malabar coast , and , therefore , Anno 1510 , James Lopez de Seqiieira Was sent from Lisbon with orders to sail as far as Malacca ; this is a city seated on that peninsula
formerly called Aurea Chersonesus , running out into the Indian sea from the main land , to which it is joined by a narrow neck of land , OH the north , and on the south separated ^ from the island of Sumatra by a small strait or channel : Malacca was at that time the greatest emporium of all the farther India . ' Thither Sequeira was sent to settle trade , or rather to discover what advantages might be gained ; but the Moors
who watched to destroy him , having failed of their design to murder him at an entertainment , contrived to get thirty of his men ashore on pretence of loading spice , and then falling on them and the ships at the same time , killed ei ght Portuguese , took sixty , and the ships with difli--culty got away . However , here we have Malacca discovered , and at way open to all the further parts of India .. In his ,. way to Malacca ,
Sequeira made peace with the kings of Achem ; Pedir , arid Pacem * all at that time small princes at the north-west end of the island Sumatra . Whilst Sequeira was thus employed , Albuquerque assaults the famous city of Goa , seated in a small island on the coast of Decan , and taking the inhabitants unprovided , made himself master of it , but enjoyed it not long ; for Hidalcan , the former owner , returning with 60 , 009 men , drove him out of itafter a siege of 20 days : yet the next year he
, again took it by force , and it has ever since continued in the hands of the Portuguese , and been the metropolis of all their dominions in the , east , being made an archbishop's see , ' and the residence of the viceroy who has the government of all the conquests in those parts . Albuquerque , flushed with this success , as soon as he had settled all safe at Goasailed for Malacca with 1400 fihting men in 19 ships . Bthe
, g y way he took five ships , and , at his arrival on the coast of Sumatra , was complimented by the kings of Pedir and Pacem . It is not unworthy relating in this place that , in one of the ships taken at this time , was found Nehoada Beegtiea , one of the chief contrivers of the treachery against Sequeira ; and though he had received several mortal wounds , yet not one drop of blood came from him ; but as soon as a bracelet , of
bone was taken off his arm , the blood gushed out at all parts , " The Indians said this was the bone of a beast called Cabis , which some will have to be found in Siam , and others in the island of Java , which has this strange virtue , but none has ever been found since . This being looked upon as a great treasure , was sent b y Albuquerque to the king of Portugal , but the ship it went in was cast away , so that we have lost :
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he served some time under the command of the Viceroy Almeyda , till he was himself made governor of the Portuguese conquests in those parts , which was in the year 1510 , during which time the whole business was to settle trade , build forts , and erect factories along the coasts already known , that is , all the east side of Africa , the shores of Arabia , PersiaGuzaratCambayaDecan , > Canaraand Malabar ; and , indeed ,
, , , , they had employment enough , if well followed , to have held them many more years . But avarice and ambition know no bounds ; the Portuguese had not yetpassed Cape , Comorin , the utmost extent . of the Malabar coast , and , therefore , Anno 1510 , James Lopez de Seqiieira Was sent from Lisbon with orders to sail as far as Malacca ; this is a city seated on that peninsula
formerly called Aurea Chersonesus , running out into the Indian sea from the main land , to which it is joined by a narrow neck of land , OH the north , and on the south separated ^ from the island of Sumatra by a small strait or channel : Malacca was at that time the greatest emporium of all the farther India . ' Thither Sequeira was sent to settle trade , or rather to discover what advantages might be gained ; but the Moors
who watched to destroy him , having failed of their design to murder him at an entertainment , contrived to get thirty of his men ashore on pretence of loading spice , and then falling on them and the ships at the same time , killed ei ght Portuguese , took sixty , and the ships with difli--culty got away . However , here we have Malacca discovered , and at way open to all the further parts of India .. In his ,. way to Malacca ,
Sequeira made peace with the kings of Achem ; Pedir , arid Pacem * all at that time small princes at the north-west end of the island Sumatra . Whilst Sequeira was thus employed , Albuquerque assaults the famous city of Goa , seated in a small island on the coast of Decan , and taking the inhabitants unprovided , made himself master of it , but enjoyed it not long ; for Hidalcan , the former owner , returning with 60 , 009 men , drove him out of itafter a siege of 20 days : yet the next year he
, again took it by force , and it has ever since continued in the hands of the Portuguese , and been the metropolis of all their dominions in the , east , being made an archbishop's see , ' and the residence of the viceroy who has the government of all the conquests in those parts . Albuquerque , flushed with this success , as soon as he had settled all safe at Goasailed for Malacca with 1400 fihting men in 19 ships . Bthe
, g y way he took five ships , and , at his arrival on the coast of Sumatra , was complimented by the kings of Pedir and Pacem . It is not unworthy relating in this place that , in one of the ships taken at this time , was found Nehoada Beegtiea , one of the chief contrivers of the treachery against Sequeira ; and though he had received several mortal wounds , yet not one drop of blood came from him ; but as soon as a bracelet , of
bone was taken off his arm , the blood gushed out at all parts , " The Indians said this was the bone of a beast called Cabis , which some will have to be found in Siam , and others in the island of Java , which has this strange virtue , but none has ever been found since . This being looked upon as a great treasure , was sent b y Albuquerque to the king of Portugal , but the ship it went in was cast away , so that we have lost :