all his trust commanding them to go to Coching with some dissimulation and there to trauaile all that they could to kill the Captaine general and all such of our men as they could méete withall And as the Naires are men inconstant and cannot kéepe counsel longer then they are bethinking themselues therof therfore immediatly their intent was knowne to the Captaine general who from thence forward had a better regard to himselfe and vnto the rest of his companye then he had before And the better to take those Naires which came as Spyes thether he appointed thervnto two companies of y ◠Naires of Coching commaunding the one to k pe dilligentlye a long the foord and the other a long the riuer who watched by quarters both by day and night Whilest this dilligence was vsed the Captaine Generall had knowledge that this spy was a Naire of Coching and of the house or stocke of the Leeros who had attendant vppon him certeine Nayres that were straungers which appeared to bée lyke those of Calicut Nowe hauing certeine knowledge héereof he so hande the matter and in such order that forthwith hée tooke them all prisoners and béeing brought before him he commaunded them to bée cruellye whipped in the presence of those Naires of Coching and afterwarde to bée hanged The inhabitauntes of Coching séeing this requested the Captaine Generall to giue them some other punishment since that they were Nayres and not to shewe them so great extremitie but notwithstanding hée wold not graunt vnto anye other punishment for that they had deserued the same Then all his Captaines sayde vnto him that first and before all he should call to remembraunce the greate troubles that the King of Coching hadde susteined for the onelye mainteining of them and also howe much it woulde grieue him to heare saye that such were hanged in his Countrie without his consent Also it woulde giue an occasion for such noble men as were with him to saye that he is a king but for a while since that his iurisdiction is nowe taken from him And forasmuch as hetherto he had vsed him alwayes with reuerence they wished that nowe at the ende he woulde haue him in a greater estimation then euer hée hadde before The Captaine Generall hauing considered theyr reasons did allowe of theyr good councell héerein and caused those Naires to be sent for that were gone to execution of the which there were two halfe dead but those that were liuing hée sent to the king of Coching aduertising him how that they hadde deserued death and also the cause why hée hadde not commaunded them to bée hanged The King hearing this tooke the same in greate honour and estimation that they were sent him and especiall for that there were present sundrye of the noble men of his Countrie and of other places yea and Moores also of the chiefest that dwelt in Coching which did not lette to saye vnto the king to afrunt him withall that our men were they that commaunded and did not obeye But from hence foorthe the Captaine Generall hadde such intelligence that the subtile dealinges of the king of Calycut tooke very small effect against him How the king of Calicut of pure heauinesse for the ill successe he had in the warres did put himselfe into a Torcull and within a small time after came foorth therof chap. 73. IVne béeing now ended and the winter beginning to increase the Captaine generall thought that it woulde be some cause that the king of Calicut would not tarrie there long And therfore he was fully minded to set vpon him at the remouing of his camp for that by experience he knew the small valour of his enimies by such victories as he had gotten in times past which did therefore animate him the more therevnto thinking that at such a time he might doe him much harme And being in a readinesse to vncheine his Mastes he was presently informed that the king of Calicut was reforming a new his Castles and preparing in a readinesse a greater Fléete then euer he had before that hée might giue him therewith once more the battaile This was but a fléeing newes that was commaunded to be giuen out by the king of Calycut who did surmise that at the raising of his Campe which hée was minded to doe and to goe his waye the Captaine Generall woulde sette vppon him And therefore hée determined that his departure should be so secretlye done that no man shoulde knowe thereof but onelye Nabeadarin For this cause therefore he gaue out that hée woulde giue the battaile in the passage of Palurte and also in the Foorde both together to the ende the Captaine Generall might occupie himselfe in defending them both and hée himselfe the better steale awaye as hée didde but hée gotte nothing thereby more then hée hadde gotten before After all this on Saterday in the Euening which was Saint Iohns euen on which day they gaue out that they would giue the battaile there appeared the whole army of the enimyes as they were accustomed to shew themselues The Captaine Generall hoping of theyr comming did tarrye there all that night but in the morning he saw no likelyhood thereof and meruailing what that shoulde meane was informed by two Bramenes that the king of Calycut was gone with his whole power vnto Repelyn and that at that present hée was there For this newes hée was very sorrie but yet for all that hée entered that present daye into Repelyn where hée fought with many of his enimyes slewe and hurt a greate number and so returned to the passage where he remained yet certeine dayes to ensure Coching the better which was yet afeard of the King of Calycuts returning fearing that he would not leaue this passage Howbeit the Captaine Generall was well assured that he would not come there by reason hée was fallen into such reproch and shame in the sight of all men because of his great losses So that immediatly after that he had past the riuers of Repelyn he apparted himselfe with his noble men which had accompanied him in these warres and said vnto them with wéeping eyes in this manner following FOR a man that is without shame as I am it is not much to shedde these teares as I doe the heauinesse of my losse béeing such as fetcheth the same from my hearte with the which I am so troubled that since it is so that I cannot doe it in publike forte I will goe into some place where I may do the same without any body that may sée mée I haue also another griefe which troubleth mée verye sore ouer and besides my dishonour which is for that I am not able to rewarde you for all the greate good will and seruice you haue done mee in these warres the which I take for so greate a duetye that if so be that I might sée my selfe discharged of the same I should bée better contented then with the getting of Coching But since it is not Gods
you shall séeme in daunger or else runne awaie I woulde not blame you but to goe awaye before you haue seene any of these daungers or anye battaile fought I account the same either cowardise or else mallice You doe well know that in a manner yesterday how few Portingales did giue the ouerthrowe to thousands of our enimies which now also come to séeke vs out And if so be that you will alleadge that we were more in number then we are now indéede it is so for then we fought in open fielde where it was necessarie there should be many and nowe in a narrowe waye where a fewe shall doe as much as though were many more And since that I can fight as you haue well heard of the same for that I haue bene he that haue done most hurt to our enimies as the king of Coching is a good witnesse thereof I neuer meane to yéelde who shall loose more then you all if I be ouercome Haue ye therfore a sure hope in me and in those that remaine with mée and tarrie vntill such time you may sée the successe of all things that we doe looke for and since that your king doth tarrie why will ye goe your waie Remember that I and the others that doe remaine with me doe soiourne in the Indias so farre from our Countrie to defend the king of Coching and you that are his subiects and naturally borne in the Countrie Will you then forsake him and your countrie It were great shame for women so to doe much more for honest men as you are I doe desire you that you do not dishonour your selues nor yet doe to me so great an iniurie in hauing no confidence that I will defend you for I doe giue vnto you all my word that I will defend you frō a greater power then any the king of Calycut canne make For therefore and for this cause was I chosen and those that did appoint me to remaine in the Indias did know of the warres that the king of Calycut intended and what power he had in respect whereof I doe once againe request you to beléeue that the king of Calycut shall neuer set his foot in Coching Wherefore I desire you that none of you doe remoue for whosoeuer doth otherwise shall well vnderstand that if so be I may take him I will hang him and so I sweare by my lawe And moreouer I giue you to vnderstande that none of you all shall escape for héere in this port I doe minde to tarrie watching both day night Now therfore let euery one of you looke to that which shall behoue him and if so be you doe performe that which I haue requested you doe you then assure your selues to haue me for your friend and if not for your mortall enimie and more cruell then you would wish me to bée to the king of Calycut And therfore each of you speak plainly your mind what you will doe héerein This béeing spoken it gaue him occasion to encrease his cholar that without any consideration thereof hée did speak so lowde that the Moores with the same did double theyr feare that they had conceiued of him fearing indéede that immediatly he would haue hanged them all Wherfore presently they began to excuse themselues touching that hée charged them with all but he woulde not tarrie the hearing of the same to the intent to put them in greater feare but sent immediatly for his Ship causing it to be brought to an Ankor hard ouer against Coching besides one of the Caruells and two of the boates which he appointed forthwith to bée set in such order that there coulde none goe out of Coching by water but must néedes bée séene He had also many Paraos which he hadde caused too bée newly rigged with the which in the night he watched in the riuers which runne round about the citie Also at Sun-setting he would take all the boats that could carry men or stuffe and commaund the same to be brought a boorde his ship and to kéepe the watch and in the morning he returned them to their owners With this diligence they of Coching were so feared that there was none y ◠durst go forth without his lisence by meanes of those extremities vsed the Moores and Gentiles were quiet yet for all these troubles that the Captaine Generall had the most part of the night he would venture a land into Repelyn in the which he burnt townes killed men and tooke greate store of Cattell and Paraos and also did them sundrie other iniuries at the which the Moores of Coching much meruailed namely how he could suffer so great trauaile and therfore they gaue out that he was the diuell How the Captaine Generall made an entrie into Repelyn and also how he departed towardes the straights of Cambalan there to tarrie the king of Calicuts comming Chap. 66. AT this instant was the king of Coching aduertised that the king of Calicut was come to Repelin to gather his power together and so to go from thence to Coching by the straights of Cambalan After y e selfe same manner did Rodrigo Reinel write vnto him who lay as then very sicke and afterward dyed which the king of Calycut hearing commaunded to be taken all that he had This being knowne to the Moores of Coching that the king of Calycut was in Repelyn they wold haue giuen occasion to the townes men to haue runne away but there was none that durst venture to doe it for feare of the Captaine Generall Who after that he knew for certeintye of his béeing in Repelyn and that all men might vnderstand how little he did estéeme the king of Calycut and his power and armie of ships did one night set vpon a towne of the countrie of Repelyn at such houres when all were a sléepe and did set fire to the same And after that it was well kindled our men were knowne and immediatly there came many Naires as wel of the towne as also from other places thereabouts adioyning The Captaine Generall was forced to retire that with great daunger vnto his boats with fiue of his men hurt and of his enimies there were many slaine and hurt yet for all that those enimies that remained aliue followed him a good while And as our men returned toward Coching there were shot by them so many arrows which fell vpon their boates that their targets were all couered with the same This being knowne to the king of Coching that he was come to the Castle he went to visit him for that he accounted that enterprise for a great matter in especially the king of Calycut béeing there present who had in a readinesse so greate and mightie a power and so he saide At the which the Captaine Generall laughed and therewithall he tolde him that he woulde desire no more but that the King of Calicut would once come for that he woulde fight with him a battaile and then woulde be apparaunt
and beset vs neither yet such a Fléete that was so great and mightye with the fearefull cryes that the Enimies did make nor the terrible thundering of the Ordinance could any wayes discourage or make vs afeard The greater of the Castles being come hard to this defence did then shoote off all his ordinance at the Caruels the Captaine generall commaunded to shoote at the same with a Saker the which caused the said Castle to stand wauering but yet did them little harme neither yet with another péece that they shot off foorthwith with the which Captaine generall was so sad that he lifted vp his eyes vnto heauen saieng Lord doe not retourne my sinnes to my face at this time and this he said with such a loude voyce that some there were that heard the same In the meane while came the other Paraos which did set themselues right equal with the first with the comming of these the battell did increase more and more very stoutly on all parts Their arrowes came so thicke which made so great a shadow that sometimes ther appeared neither heauen nor earth with y â— great smoke of their Ordinaunce The Captaine generall did tourne and commaund to shoote at the great Castle the Saker againe as with y â— other shot past they had somwhat shaken their yron works which were not very strong so with the same shot they presently brake after y t the yron workes were thus broken some of their beams being likewise caried away with certeine of their men slaine with y â— same our men gaue a great cry the Captaine general falling down on his knées gaue God great thankes returning to shoot the Saker againe did carrie away another row of beams with many more slaine and hurt and the Ordinaunce being shotte off againe it was all torne in péeces in a small space and so the enimies went with their Castle further of but the others remayned there fighting very stoutly And after this both parts endured more trouble all the day folowing then in all the battells that were past but in the ende we did so much hurt vnto their Castles and sunke and rent so many of their Paraos in péeces y â— the enimies could not abide the same therfore they shrank thence The fight did endure till euensong time began in y â— morning of the enimies wer many slain as afterward was séene in y â— water of vs none nor any hurt but only brused with a shot which went through y e Admiral y e bullet went among many that were there but they receiued no harme The Captaine generall séeing the enimies went their waye followed them in their Boates and such Paraos as he had shooting alwayes at those that were vppon the point Arâ—aul with the king and with the force of their Ordinaunce made them runne away leauing behinde them slaine thrée hundred and thirtie men This béeing done he then returned to his Caruells where that euening came to visit him the Prince of Coching in the behalfe of the king who sent to excuse himselfe that he could not come to visit him in his owne person But he sent him againe word that he wold receiue no discharge vntill such time he knew his heuines was past but praied him froÌ„ hence forth to beléeue better in God for that the daungerous daye of the Castles was past and he remained in the passage as he did before all safe and in readinesse to serue him The selfe same daie came to visit him certeine noble men of those that were of the king of Cochings side with whome there was made great triumph for this victorie and likewise there went to sée him many Moores Merchants which brought him great presents supposing to get of him thereby great friendship He receiued them very gently praieng them to be true subiects to the king of Coching for thereby they should finde him assured at any time whensoeuer he might stand them in any stéede wherevpon they faithfully promised so to do to binde them the more he made them very great chéere Also the next day in the morning the king of Coching came to visit him who imbraced him with as great gladnesse as could be deuised saieng that he did wel performe y e which he had promised in giuing the king of Calycut the ouerthrowe But vnto this he answered that he had not performed all his promise since that he did not put him on the Caluete but he was not in fault thereof for that the king kept himselfe alwayes farre from him He declared also to the king diuerse other matters of pleasure which the king answered in like manner praising very much his valiantnes that he had wel séene y e God did fight for vs asking of him forgiuenesse for y e distrust he had in him how greatly he was bound to succour him declaring also that the affaires of Portingale were very great and confessing lykewise that he through his worthinesse had made him king After this victorie the inhabitants of Coching did cast off the feare they had of the king of Calycut in such sort that neuer from thence forth they stoode in anye dread of him neither yet made account of his habilitye Of the counsell which the king of Calycut tooke of his brother and how hee was gaine-saide and also by what pollicie meanes the king of Calycut sought to kill the Captaine generall chap. 72. THE king remained greatly ashamed and very sad for that at the same time he could not ouerthrowe the Captaine Generall the rather because he neuer accounted any thing more certeine then to ouer come him in that conflict because of the Castles which he had prepared for his confusion And now leauing a side all hope euer to haue the victorie he desired to haue with vs no more warres and therefore he called before him into his tents all those kings and noble men that came to helpe him and sayd thus vnto them YOV doe well sée how little our power profiteth vs against these men and how little our pollicies preuaileth since they doe not regard vs and would neuer giue ouer the passage notwithstanding the greate power we had against them The like account also they make of vs in their feasts and pastimes when we goe against them as though wee were the fewer and they the more and as though the land which they are in were theirs we were the Christians whereby it appeareth they alwayes make account of the victorie for certeine which either they obteine by witchcrafts or else their God doth fight for them which cannot bée otherwise considering the great victories they haue had against vs and the greate hurt that we haue receiued of them Wherefore I suppose that God would it should be so for the litle iustice y t is obserued in these wars as hath wel appered in the beginning of the same And if I had ben wel aduised it shuld
the Mores were in with him he was afeard least that after they had taken the said shippe the Moores through the Kings fauour would rise against them And this was the aunswere that was sent to the Factor yet for all that he did require him once more to take that ship saieng that if he did not that then the King shuld be in hazarde to loose such Merchandize as he had ther neuerthelesse the Captaine general wold not meddle therewith and yéelding for that his determination sufficient reason to the contrary But the Factor on y e other part ceased not to make vnto him sundry requests and protestations that he should paye all such losses and damages as should hap vpon the King of Portingales Merchaundize by his defaults for that he woulde not deale with the sayde ship Thus since he saw there was no other remedie he coÌ„sented therevnto although it were against his will therfore the xvi day of December the Captaine generall sent word to those that were aboord y e ship that was thus laden by the Moores by the order which was sent him from the King of Calicut to commaund them to depart and for asmuch as they made but little reckoning thereof he sent the next daye all his boates to bring hir within the harbour After that this report came to the owner of the ships knowledge they made the Moores priuie héereof whereof they were very glad for that by this meanes there was offered vnto them occasion to fall out with our men Héerevppon they began in a furious outrage running out of their dores like madde men complaining vpon vs and our people by meanes whereof they were tumulteously moued and framed great outcryes and larums and alwayes against our men And after that they had thus done they ranne to the King with whom went the owner of the ship complaining also vpon our men for the detaining of his ship saieng that our men had bought and laden much more spices drugs then that the Merchaundize came vnto which they hadde brought with them howbeit their pride was such that they were content with nothing but as Théeues and Pirates would haue all At this instant came the Moores which did before helpe him very much declaring many things against our men how much the King was in fault for suffering them within this Citie requesting him most earnestlye to giue them license to reuenge their losse which they had receiued The King as he was inconstant and without anye fidelitie did graunt them the same As soone as the Moores had obtained their request they came their waye from the King and tooke their weapons and with a sauage fiercenes lyke wilde beasts ranne into the Citie in flockes towarde the Factorie which was compassed about like a Castle with the wall of the height of a man on horsebacke in the which were lxx Portingales amongst whom was Fryer Henrick with his coÌ„pany of Friers Ther wer amongst our men no more weapons then 8. Crossebowes all y e rest had nothing but swords clokes as soone as they knew of y e enimies coÌ„ming they ran to the gates of the Factory when y e they saw they were so few they iudged them to be some quarellers that came thether for the same purpose therefore wer minded to defend their gates with their cloakes rapieâ—s only but afterward their power increased so much vpoÌ„ our men that by reason of their arrowes and speares they could not indure ther any longer then y â— Factor commanded their gates to be shut vp supposing that from the wal they wold driue their enimies from thence at the very shutting vp of the gates there were seuen of the enimies slaine y e which gates could not be shut without great daunger alwayes fighting valiantly In this conflict ther wer of our men many hurt foure slaine howbeit as well those y e wer hurt as those y â— wer in health went vp vpon y e wal of y e Factory for to defend their enimies from thence with their crossebowes Howbeit the multitude of them at that present was so great that they made shewe as if they had bene in number foure thousande There came also to aide them sundrye Nayres which all of them together began to set vpon those that wer in the Factorie hoping thereby to enter Aries Correa séeing y e it was impossible for him to defend it any loÌ„ger without some aide from the ships and for to giue them to vnderstand of their troubles there was displaide a flagge in the top of the Factorie and as soone as the same was discryed by the Captaine generall he suspected it in himselfe to be that which indéede it was for the which sodaine chance he was very sorrowfull for that as then he was but newly let bloud and sicke in his bed and therefore he could not go himselfe to succour them howbeit he sent Sancho de Toar to supply his roome with all the Fléetes boats which went with such men as they had but to resist such a number as there was of their enimies they were very few which Sancho de Toar perceiuing durst not disimbarke himselfe neither yet come too néere the shore least that the enimies shuld come in their Almadias and Tonys and so take them also that they could not hurt them they laye so farre off from the shore but they from thence could discerne how valyantly our men did defende themselues and there entring although the number of their enimies did alwayes increase for so it was néedful for y e great flaughter y t our men made of theÌ„ from ouer y e wall Notwithstanding by meanes therof their fury did so increase y t they caused to be brought certain 〈◊〉 to ouerthrow part of y e wall wtall which were so great that our men could not by any meanes defend the same being so few and so many hurt with the enimies arrowes and speares which came from them as thicke as though it had rained arrowes But perceiuing once the enimie began to enter they would not tarrie there any longer but went forth of the Factorye by a dore that opened toward the water side where they made reckoning to saue themselues with their boats But y e enimies followed them alwaies so narrowly hurting and killing them that in this conflict Aries Correa was slaine so that there were lacking fiftie of our men betwéene those that were dead and taken captiues twentie onely escaped which tooke the water but those were sore hurt amongst whome was a Frayer called Fryer Henricke and a son of the said Aries Correa which was but eleuen yeares of age who is yet aliue and is called Antonio Correa and since that time hath done in the Indias and in other places notable acts of Armes as in the fourth booke I shall declare Those that did escape wer taken into our boates and carried to the Fléete ¶ How the Captaine generall slewe the most parte of
héereof I am in no fault The King of Calycut perceiuing that the King of Coching did stand so much vpon his reputation and wold not doe that which he had requested him did then determine the Captain generall being once departing to set vpon him by the waye and vtterly to destroy him against whome he commaunded to be made in a readines a Fléet of xxix great ships that they might encounter with him vpon the Sea at his departure toward Portingale supposing that forasmuch as they went laden he should be the better able to do them the more harme Of the battaile that was fought betweene the Fleet of Calycut and the captaine generall as hee was going toward Cananor how Vincente Sodre Pedro Raphael and Diego Pieres tooke two of those ships how the Captaine generall departed toward Portingale Chap. 49. OF all these letters and messages the King of Coching woulde neuer make the Captaine generall priuie vntill such time that he was ready to depart and then he tolde him which before he was loth to doe And for that he should not conceiue and thinke him to be so vaine as to alter his minde to doe as the King of Calycut would haue him he did therefore shewe himselfe to be so constant and such a friend of the king of Portingales that for his sake he woulde aduenture to loose his Citie if it were néede For this the Captaine generall gaue him great thankes saieng that the King his Master would neuer forget that good will and in his name he promised to fauour and succour him in such sort that he shoulde not onely haue his kingdome in great assuraunce but also that he would ayde him to conquere others He willed him also not to feare those Letters that the King of Calicut hadde sent him for that they were nothing els but to put him in feare and bring him to be a traitor as he was being therefore so destroyed and that from henceforth there shoulde bée made such cruell wars against him y e he shuld haue inough to doe to defend himselfe much lesse to make warres against others All this he tolde him for the succour of those ships which should remaine in the Indias These wordes were spoken afore many of his Nayres of the which the King was verye gladde that they heard them And for that we had knowledge that in respect of the friendship that they had with the Moores they were verye sorye that we had the Factory graunted in Coching Therefore the Captaine Generall promised vnto the King that from Cananor hée woulde forthwith sende him thether a Fléete of ships from whence he was minded to departe Now after that he had laden his ten shippes and was a Sea boorde thrée leagues from Pandarane he had knowledge of the nine and twentie great shippes of the Moores that went to séeke him out And as soone as he had sight of them he consulted with his Captaines to fight with them vpon whom with the winde that did begin to blowe they did beare This being agréed vppon the Generall began to beare toward the Enimies Vincente Sodre Pedro Raphael and Diego Pieres for that theyr ships were great saylers went before them all and these were the first that did giue the onset vpon two of the chiefest ships Vincente Sodre fought with the one alone and Pedro Raphael and Diego Pieres with the other Their méeting was with such a valyaunt minde that out of both the Enimyes shippes there leapt many into the Sea The fight indured no longer but vntill such time the Captaine generall with the other shippes drewe néere who did alwayes shoote off at them In the meane while the rest of the Enimies did beare all that they could towarde the shoare The Captaine generall for feare of the losse of some of his shippes would not followe the rather for that they were all laden Howbeit our men leapte into theyr boates and there fought with those that were swimming in the water and slewe them all the which were néere to the number of thrée hundred persons After this the Captaine Generall commaunded to discharge theyr Shippes which were taken in the which was founde store of rich Merchaundize and amongest the same these péeces following Sixe great Tynages of fine Earth which they doe call Porcelanas and the same is verye costlye as by experience thereof we do sée in Portingale foure great Guyndes of siluer with certaine perfuming Pannes of siluer also they there founde certayne Basons of siluer and gylte in the which they doe vse to spit But that which excéeded the rest was an Idoll of Golde which weighed thirtie pounde waight with a monstrous face and for his eyes he had two verye fine Emerauldes a Vestement of beaten golde wrought and set with fine stone the which vestement belonged vnto this Idoll with a Carbuncle or Rubie in his breast as bigge as a Crosado which gaue as great a lyght as it had bene a fire The ships being set a fire y e Captaine general departed toward Cananor wher he was with the King who gaue him a house for the Factorie the possession whereof was taken by Gonsallo Gill Barbosa who was appointed for Factor and by Sebastian Aluares and Diego Godino Notaries and by the Interpretour called Edwarte Barboso and sundry others in all to the number of twentie of all whom the King tooke charge vpon him with all that was in the Factorie and bound himselfe to lade from thenceforth all the King of Portingales ships of Spices that they should at any time haue néed of and this at a certaine price which was immediately named The Captaine generall did enter into the like bonds in the name of the King of Portingale to defend him from all those that shoulde make him warres for this cause Also the King of Cananor did the lyke and to remaine the King of Cochings friend and not to helpe nor aide any that should come against him vpon paine that wée should make him warres and of all this there were sufficient great and lawfull writings made on all parts After this the Captain generall sent Vincente Sodre to go along the Coast and to kéepe the same vntill Februarie And if in the meane while there were any newes or knowledge of any lykelihood of warres betwéene the King of Coching the King of Calycut that then he shoulde Winter there in Coching but if not that then he should go to the straights of the red Sea to take such ships of Meca as doe passe to the Indias This being dispatched and those thrée shippes laden with that they should haue they departed toward Portingale with thirtéene shippes the twentith daye of December in the yeare of our Lord 1503. and so arriued with all their ships at Monsanbique And for that the ship that Steuen de la Gama went in had a great leake he commaunded the same to be vnladen and brought a ground and after that she was
that the boats carried which made the enimies to flie from the shoare Whilest they were thus doing Edwarte Pacheco did determine to leape a land somwhat farther of from the others going forth to doe so he found ther many Naires w t theyr weapons which had past by a narrow way to y e intent to succour their felows As soone as he had sight of theÌ„ he commanded to bring his boat hard to y e streight where w t his ordinance he did hinder and keepe that passage Then immediatly came thether our men which forthwith did leape a land setting vpoÌ„ their enimies inforced theÌ„ to ruÌ„ away and for that they knew not the countrie they followed them not but did set fire to the towne Then Edwarto Pacheco Pedro de Taide did part themselues with their men to go and burne another Towne which stoode a little aboue the â—ther and in the way they met with eightéene Paraos all armed of the king of Calycuts which they did put to flight and the towne being burnt as they before had determined they returned to their Generalls And for that it was somwhat rath for to returne they went to the Iland of Cambalan minding to destroie y e same for that the Caimall was enimie to the king of Coching where they burnt a greate towne From thence Edwarto Pacheco with sixe Paraos of Coching went to burne another towne but before they could accomplish the same they fought a good while with their enimies of the which there were some slaine The Towne being set a fire he retourned with his men of the which were seauen hurt and béeing retyred he fought with thirtéene Paraos of Calicut which he did ouercome with the helpe of Pedro de Tayde Antonio del campo which came thether at that instant The enimies being retired into a certeine créeke there went after them Edwarto Pacheco and was the cause that one of those Paraos ran a ground and so he tooke the same and in the meane while the others went their waie And for that our men that rowed were wearyed they went not therefore after them but returned vnto their Captaines generall with whome they went to Coching And giuing the king an account of that which they had done hée yéelded himselfe sufficiently contented with reuenge of his enimies and prayed them to giue ouer the warres What the captaine Generall had done going for a Tone laden with pepper and how Edwarto Pacheco did put to flight 34. Paraos chap. 6â— NOw by reason of these foresaid wars there was none that durst bring one graine of Pepper to sell at the Factorie Neither yet durst the merchants goe to seeke the same out and for all that they were able they could not get more then thrée hundred Bahares And so they sent word to the generalls willing them to send for it being nine leagues of from Coching y â— which they immediatly did béeing accompanied with all the other Captaines of the Fléete for that they shoulde goe for the same amongst all their enimyes And because they woulde not be knowne they departed in the night and in their way Edwarte Pacheco did destroy an whole Ilande where hee with onely those of his owne companie fought with sixe thousand of his enimies the Generalls did in the meane while put to slight xxxiiii Paraos This béeing done Edwarte Pacheco and Antonio del campo went and destroied a great towne in the firme land fighting with putting to slight two thousand Naires of the which ther were many slaine and hurt and of our men not one With this victorie they returned to their Captaines Generall who sent immediatly for the pepper which was but a lyttle way of and being night themselues did depart toward Coching from whence they were minded to send the Tone which carried the pepper laden with merchandise to giue in truck of the same And for that it might goe the surer Edwarte Pacheco was sent with other thrée Captaines who carried each of them fiftie men a péece of Coching therwent 500. Paraos Edwarte Pacheco being departed did passe the foresaid straight before it was day therfore he was not seens being broad day did passe by the mouth of a 〈◊〉 where ther were bow men without number y â— which shot at our men with their arrowes And if so be y â— our boates had not ben paueicâ—d or fenced with their shields a targets our men had receiued great hurt for that the riuer was but narow so y e with their arrows they might reach them Edwarte Pacheco séeing that they were ioyned all together and iudging that on that sort they might do them some harme commanded immediatly one of the Captaines to kéepe y â— Tone and he with the other two also those of Coching did determinatly come with y e proers of their boats a land where there were two thousand men of the enimies amongst the which he commaunded the Fawlkons to be shotte off the which did so enter amongest them all that with the same there were many torne in péeces so that it made the residue to retire from the water side there remained place inough for our men to disimbarke themselues without daunger so they did And as the most part of them carried handguns so they did set vpon them with the better stomacke The enimies for all that gaue no place but shot of their arrowes which were so many in number that it was thought that one met in the aire with another The skirmish was valiantly handled of the one side and of the other which in such sort indured a quarter of an houre yet notwithstanding the enimie at length did runne away and left of their company many slaine the cause whereof was for that they brought no weapons to offend their enimies withall Then our men pursued them to a village out of the which there issued many Naires which ioyning theÌ„selues with those y â— fled away returned vpon our men with such a stomacke that they ran in great daunger for that there were of the enimies wel néere sixe thousand men A great multitude of those y t were ther did then as much as they could to go betwéene the riuer and our men but to resist them that they should not so doe and to kill them all our men defended themselues and repelled them with greate difficultie And as the riuer was thus defended so they ran into the same in the which they shewed themselues to be valiant And when they drew néere to those that were in their boates they separated themselues into two seuerall places leauing one broad way that our men might the better imbark themselues standing without the daunger of their Ordinaunce with the feare of the which the enimyes did suffer our men to imbarke themselues whereat there was none either slaine or hurt which séemed to be a miracle ¶ Heere is contained the scituation of the Citie of Coulan
the Ordinaunce with the which the enimyes were receiued At this instaunt those Nayres that were of Coching did all runne awaye onely Grandagora and Frangora remained for that they were in the Caruell otherwise they woulde haue gone as the others did which had bene no matter but that they should sée how valiantly our men defended themselues in the battell into the which they went in a great heate The Ordinaunce went off so often and lykewise the small shot that there was none that coulde see one another for the smoake of the same The Caruell and the Boates did so flame in fire and did so cruelly handle the enimyes at the first entering that there were torne in péeces some of their Paraos and manye of their men slaine and hurt without any of ours hurt or standing in any daunger therof at all By this time the enimyes were come within the throwe of a Dart. Howbeit as they were many and that without order the one did hurt and hinder the other so that they could not fight Yet notwithstanding the xxv Paraos that went before did trouble our men very much with theyr Ordinaunce which they had for that they went cheined together Our men being wearied and hurt and the battaile hauing endured a good while the Captaine Generall commaunded a Saker to bee shotte at them the which till that time had not béene shot at the enimies And after that the same was twice discharged they all fledde and for that they laye very thicke together it did immediatlye sinke foure of them and with that they were all ouercome and so they ran theyr waye The residue of the Paraos which did continue in the battaile were eightéene sunke and thirtéene fledde awaye the residue gaue place in the which there were of the enimyes greate numbers slaine and hurt After all this came the Vize Admerall called the Lord of Repelyn with another squadron and gaue a proud onset so did the king of Calycut giue the lyke vpon the land This battaile was farre more vehement then the first in the which were manye more of the enimyes slaine then before as appeared by the water which was of the coulour of bloud Yet for all this the Lorde of Repelyn made lowde outeryes commaunding them to laye the Caruell aboorde but for all that they durst not venture to doe it but rather were desirous to goe theyr waye as they also that were a land did the like It was now at this present past Euensong from the time the battell did first beginne in the which were of the enymies slaine not onely by land but also by water 350. men which were knowne besides others the which were aboue a thousand and of our men there were some hurt but none slaine And although theyr pellets were made of cast yron yet they did no more hurt then a stone béeing throwne Howbeit our defences were all torne in péeces and one of our boates also neuerthelesse not in such sorte but that it might bée new rigged before that it was night How the king of Calicut seeing the ill successe that hee had in the warres did enter into councell to leaue the same Chap. 68. THose kings and noble men which came to succour and aide the king of Calicut perceiuing that he was thus ouerthrowne and that with great losse both of his men vessells although his power were great and ours but very smal that the captain Generall neuer made any reckoning of the king of Calicut nor of his force but for al that did ouerrun the Countrie destroyed it some there were of them that made a greate wonder thereat sayd that our God did fight for vs whervpon they lost all the hope they had for euer to giue vs the ouerthrowe and from thence forth they had themselues in no reputation but rather were very sorie that it was their euill hap to come in the aide of the king of Calycut Those that did most repent themselues of their comming wer subiects to the king of Coching for that their countries were scituated along the riuers which did put them in the more feare of the Captaine Generall that he wold set fire to their townes houses or otherwise destroie them And for that cause they determined to leaue the king of Calycut wold make no more wars against our men more thē that which was past alreadie And vpon this condition they returned to the king of Coching with whom they reconcyled themselues and those that did thus were one called Marugata Muta Caymal and his brother and Cousins who immediatly after the battaile did so secretly depart from the kinge of Calicuts Campe from whence they went to the Iland of Vaypin to stay there till they might see their time as I haue sayd But when the king of Calicut had knowledge that they were gone and also vnderstoode where they were become he was very sory therefore which also was the occasion that he renewed all his griefe that hee had conceyued for his ouerthrow which he had receyued at our mens hands that were so few Wherupon he tooke occasion to rebuke his captaines saying that they were good for nothing and that through their defaulte our men continued and kept these passages And if so he that they had had any shame they would or this time haue dryuen them from thence in especially hauing geuen so often the enterprise to passe the same Then those two Italians that were presente did replie vnto the king that although our men had done most valiantly yet that which they did was like vnto the dedes of desperate men Notwithstanding that they were not able to defende themselues long from such a power as his was in especially not hoping to haue any succour And therefore they willed him to set vpon them often times for by that meanes it was possible to take them Some also of those kinges and noble men that came to succoure the king and that were desirous of warres did confirme that which the Italians had saide before addinge moreouer that God doth permitte his enemies sometime to haue the victorie for a more greater losse vnto them and therefore it were good saide they that he followed his friends counsell and prooued their stedfastnesse And although it were so that he had not the victorie immediatelye yet hee should not therefore dispaire The king finding himselfe somewhat vexed in minde with those wordes aunswered them saying Although that eche of you is so valiant that it appeareth vnto you a small matter to ouercome those Christians yet I am not so obstinate to thinke the same Howbeit I suppose yet that you doe sée in me no such a feare that thereby you might iudge it néedefull to strengthen me with those words For what can you tell me in this case that you may satisfie me withall For if so bee that you will consider as much as I doe you would soone know how great an acte this is that
you doe make so little accompt off I doe not take it in vs for so great a victorie in ouercomming these Christians but rather in them in defending themselues from vs as they haue done Wher in it hath well appeared that their God did fight for them And will you sée how it is so You maye well consider that our men are many and that they haue bene valyant in the warres past it hath well appeared in many and great battailes wherein I haue ouercome mine enimies as you do all well know But since they haue fought with these Christians they séeme to be not as they were nor durst giue the onset vpon them for the feare they haue conceiued And certainly as farre as I can learne and also all those that are of a good iudgement we ought to beléeue that those workes are rather of God then of man For who is he that would not be afeard of them wel perceiuing that all others are I meane not onely the King of Cochings subiects which came to succour vs who haue repented themselues thereof but also manye other of our friends which in the beginning of these wars did also aide vs. And farther I am enformed by some that they haue now offered their friendship vnto the King of Coching Which thing if it be true it is for that they haue lost the hope they had of any victory on our part as well for that which is past as also reputing how lyttle time there is now lefte of the Summer and also for that in the Winter they cannot remayne anye time to continue in the Fieldes because of the great stormes and raine which would then be And in the ende of the winter then will there come the Fléete from Portingale which will doe vs as much harme as the fléete did the last yere and so I shall neuer bée out of vnfortunate mischiefes but thus in the end I shall be vtterly destroyed All this shall be that I shall gette with the losse of the friendship of the Christians And it is possible that for theyr causes the Pagodes will not aide nor helpe me as they haue done before time For although you tell me that they doe permit sometime their friendes to suffer persecution for their profit do you not thinke the same also to happen for their offences as it is well knowne this doth for mine What then shall néede any further exhortations to cause me to doe as you would haue me and to suffer persecution for my wealth since I doe vnderstand what the same meaneth and for the preseruing of mine estate it is requisite and needfull to haue friendshippe with the Christians if so be that you be also of the same minde for that we are all equall in the losse and also in the gaines For this talke of the kings they were all sorrie that had giuen him counsell to go forward in these wars since that they perceiued that his intent was to leaue the same and haue friendship with the Captaine Generall These therefore would forthwith haue aunswered but the Prince Nabeadarin didde preuent them who was sorrie for these warres commensed and spake thus looking vppon them all SInce the king doth aske vs counsell what is best to be done in this matter which standeth him so much vppon I as one that most of all am gréeued with this losse and most desirous of his profite will therefore bée the first that shall shewe heerein my minde and what I doe thinke thereof In that which you saye that oftentimes the Pagodes in the time of the persecutions that we do receiue will commaund vs to doe that which they will haue vs so we ought to vnderstande them although therefore in these warres it appeareth that it goeth very euill with vs and in this they doe shew how much they are our frends truely I doe beleue the same the rather for that we ought not to beleue them that would haue a matter done without reason as it were to geue vs the victorie against those Christians and power to destroy the king of Coching vnto whom we haue done very much hurt killynge the laste yeare his Princes and almost all his men setting of Coching a fire and destroying his countrey from whence we hunted him away with his great discredite dispossed him of his kingdome subiects so that al they for the feare they had of vs did leaue him yea his own frendes forsooke him went against him all for our sake And aboue all these euils the which he did not deserue for y t he was not in any fault we would yet procéed further vtterly to destroy him What hath he done Did hee procure to take anye mans countrey from him No. In friendship did he vse himselfe traiterously Neither Did he commaunde the Marchantes that they should not come to Calicut Neither Did he thē some worse thing since he did nothing of these Nothing at all What then forsooth for y t he did receiue into his countrey the Christians which being driuen out of Calicut went to séeke him out as he was desirous to encrease and enpeople his Citie and to augment hys estate and riches Shall we therefore destroy him being our friend as an enemie With this right doe the Pagodes helpe vs to take the honor riches and credite from the right owner It cannot be so for that they be righteous and iust and therfore they will not help vs agaynst those Christians which were slayne robbed and thrust out of Calicut and were there receiued vnder safeconduct from the king comminge to his porte before any others and not geuing cause wherfore they should receiue so many iniuries If wee doe it for that they laide hande vpon a Shippe of the Moores there is no reason why for that the Kinge commaunded them to stay the same And if he had ben aduised by al men as he was by me the Moores should haue paid for that they ha done that very well for if they had ben punished it wold wel haue appered y t the king had ben in no fault of y t which they had done And this had bene sufficient to haue confirmed the friendship of the Christians with him this also would haue bene a cause sufficient to haue kept them in Calicut from going to Coching to haue there setteled a trade whom the King through euill councell hath trauayled so much to take them as though they were théeues that had robbed him of his owne they being so good so gentle so valyant as we sée and besides so gratefull of the benefite they doe receiue For the receiuing of them as y e King of Mylinde did they gaue ouer two ships laden with gold the which they had taken from a Cousin of his If these men were Théeues as the Moores doe say they are those were prices not to be left You know how rich a Present they brought to the King and what ritch merchandise
pleasure that I shoulde get the victorie ouer it which hath procured my dishonour so is it not his pleasure and will that I possesse the state of a king any longer but rather for the amending of my sinnes will ende my lyfe in this Torcull where I meane to continue vntill such time that God hath taken awaye this hatred which hée hath conceiued against mée And from this time forward you may dispose of your selues and do what you shall thinke best with my countrie and subiectes I doe not offer you my person forsomuch as béeing a man so vnfortunate as I am it shall not stand with your credite to require his companye and with this speach hée ended his talke But the Princes and Noble men woulde somewhat haue comforted him and withdrawne him from this his determination but it could not preuaile for that he had fully bent himselfe to the contrary and so with certeine of his Chaplaines he entered into this Torcull Now his mother hauing knowledge that he was there shée sent him word that for this his sodeine determination she remained as heauie and with as sorrowfull a heart as might bée Informing him moreouer that through this sodeine chaunce there hath risen in Calycut a great alteration for that from thence are gone and now are ready to go many sundrie merchants and also that the citie is become wonderfully vnprouided of victualls with the greate feare the inhabitants are in of the Christians which is the occasion ther are no victualls brought thether But no perswasion she sayd could withdrawe him from these wars with the Christians which from the beginning of the same was a great griefe vnto her willing him also that in no case he shoulde returne vnto Calycut vntill he might doe the same with his credit which was cleane lost alreadie And therefore shée counsailed him a while to forbeare vntill such time he did recouer it againe and that with victorie yea rather to loose all then to returne without it With this message the Kings heauinesse increased greatlye and he sent immediatelye for his Brother to whome being come he gaue him charge of the gouernment of his kingdome But after that he came out of the foresaid Torcull it was restored vnto him againe ¶ How there came sundry Kings Princes of the Countrey to demaund peace of the Captaine generall also how there came vnto Coching many Moores of Calycut to inhabite there Chap. 74. ALL these Kings and Noble men which came to serue y e king of Calicut after that he had placed himselfe in the Torcul remained a few dayes in Repelyn tarrieng to sée whether he did repent himselfe of that which he had done or not and perceiuing y e contrary each of them repaired toward their Countreyes whereof the most part of them laye there along the water side And forsomuch as the Winter began to increase and they fearing least the Captaine generall would ouercome them all hauing now lost the hope they had to defend themselues now as before time Therefore they minded to procure as much as they could to be friends and in peace with the Captaine generall For the which intent as Mediatour for the same purpose they sent to the King of Coching whom for that his condition and nature was very good without calling to remembraunce the iniuries that were past which they had done vnto him did vndertake to do the same Sending them immediatly a safeconduct for their safe comming vnto Coching from whence he went in their company to visit the Captaine generall whom at their méeting he earnestly requested to receiue them as his friendes who aunswered that for his sake he would so doe Diuers other Princes also there were that coulde not come but yet notwithstanding they sent vnto him their Embassadours to conclude this peace likewise Also sundrye Moores of Calycut that were great Merchants to the ende they might quietly vse their trade forsooke Calycut came to dwell at Coching with the consent of the Captaine generall Others there were that went to Cananor and Coulan so that the great Trade that was before in Calycut began sodainly to fall And for that the Moores of Calycut began in this sorte to inhabite in Coching therefore the Captaine generall wold not leaue this passage as also for that there came manye sundry times Paraos from Calycut into the riuers to kéep the same by Nabeadarins commaundement Howbeit the Captaine generall met with them and fought with them and hurt many of his enimies Moreouer he oftentimes entered into the Lord of Repelyns Countrey to take Cattell for his prouision fought with many of his enimies vpon whom he made great slaughter One daye by chaunce our men met with certaine Tones of the enimies the which were in a certaine standing water and carried them away into the riuers and made with the enimies a valyant and stout skirmish in the which was slaine the greatest parte of them and not one of our men hurt After all this the Lorde of Repelyn became the Captaine generalls friende and came to visite him and brought him for a Present a great quantitie of Pepper which he had in his Countrey ¶ How Lope Suares de Menesis departed for the Indias for captaine generall of the Fleete that went in the yeare of our Lorde a 1504. and what more past or euer he came to Ansadina cap. 75. IN the yeare of our Lorde 1504. the king of Portingale hauing certeine knowledge that the king of Calycut continued as yet in the warres did therfore send to succour our men with a Fléete of twelue great shippes and appointed for Generall of the same a Gentleman called Lope Suares de Menesis who in the time of king Don Iohn the second had bene Captaine in the Mina The Captaines of the Fléet were these following Pedro de Mendosa Lionel Cotinuo Tristim de la Silua Lope Mendus de Vascon Cele Lope de Abreo Philipe de Castro Alonso Lopes de Castro Alonso Lopes de la Cocts Pero Alonso de Aguylar Vasco de la Siluero Vasco Caruallo Pedro Dynes de Sutunell All these were Gentlemen borne and some were made Gentlemen by seruice These also carryed with them many valiant souldiers who being imbarked and the Captaine Generall dispatched did depart from Lishborne the .xxii. of Aprill in the selfe same yeare and continuing theyr voiage on the second day of May they found themselues right in their course to Cape Verde Then y ◠Captaine generall hauing héere all y ◠Fléete together caused his Captaines Maisters and Pilots to assemble themselues vnto whome he spake in sence following Willing them to call to remembraunce howe lately they had departed from Portingale for which cause it was requisite that they were circumspect and diligent and not to fall into such disorders and extremities as hetherto they haue done for not looking euery man vnto his charge and not to
iiii voiage froÌ„ Portingal to the Indias The king of Coching reioyceth at the comming of the Portingale fleete The king of Coching ioyfully be holdeth the return of y e Portingale Fleete Liberalytie vvinneth the hearts of the most barbarous vnfrieÌ„dly people The Caymal 〈◊〉 povver put to flight by the Portingaleâ— The great valiencye of the Moores in resisting theyr enimies landing The Caymal slaine in defending his house valyauntlye Knights made after a valiant victorie The king of Coching thinketh him selfe sufficiently reuenged of his enimies Heere the king of Coching gâ—ue license to Francisco Alburquerque to build a Fort in Coching A description and comendatioÌ„ of the Forte of Coching They followe the vvars farther for y e king of Cochingâ— reuenge At the alarome souÌ„ded the force of y e Moores increaseth The readinesse and forvvardnes of Alonso de Alburquerque A base minded cowardise kinde of people The enimies tovvne set on fire They returne froÌ„ pursuing theyr enimies The valiant 〈◊〉 of Edvvarte Pacheco An hot valiant skirmish Why the Indias wer most earnest to hunt our men out of their Countrie The discriptioÌ„ of the citie of CoulaÌ„ A gard of vvomen vvith bovves arrovves S. Thomas banished y e country The conditions of the peace made vvith the inhabitaÌ„ts of this Citie The generals coÌ„fortable aunsvvere vnto y e king of Coching Edwarte Pacheco apointed Captaine generall for the Indias 1504 They depart from the Indias and saile tovvardes Portingal A valiant skirmish vvith an hot ship of the Moores What great feare y e king of Coching vvas put into by his traiterous subiects The aunsvvere vvhich the Captaine Generall made to y e king of Coching A fevv valiant men are better theÌ„ many more naked and cowardly The generals Oration to the Mores coÌ„cerning his abode in the Indias Hovv fevv Portingals haue vanquished thousaÌ„ds of therr enimies An hard thretning but polytike and necessary they cal y e Captaine Generall a Diuell The captaine generall his men inforced to retire vnto theyr boates 1504 These words the Captaine Generall speake vnto y e king at his departure to vvards the passage the vvords of y e king of Coching to the captaine generall The annsvvere the captaine generall made to y e king of Coching Heere the battell vvas offered by the king of Calicut vnto the captaine Generall The captaine generals words spoken vnto his meÌ„ The kings and Caimals that assist the king of Calicut against the Portingales The Naires of Coching do all run avvay The enimies vtterly discomfited doe run their vvaye The king of Calicut much blameth his captaines for being ouerthrovvne by so fevv the kings aunsvvere vnto this aduice No doubt but God doeth fight for his seruants God chasticeth meÌ„ sometime for theyr trial somtime for their offences The Princes Oration vnto the King Nobles assembled Amongst other vertues grate fulnes coÌ„mended The Lord of Repeâ—â—ns aunsvvere to the prince in the 〈◊〉 house The dissimulâ—ng vvorfs of y e Moores to y e King A Caluete and vvhat the meaning thereof is The king of Cochings vvords to the Captaine generall The aunsvver that the captain generall made to the King of Coching The Captain generals Oration to his company MeÌ„ make warres to the inteÌ„t to liue in peace The king of Calicut being in danger sendeth for succor to y e rest of his fleete The praier of a distressed minde in the bitternesse of heart The king of Calicuts oration vnto his noble men The counsell that the king of Calicuts brother gaue him touching the making of peace with the captaine generall A subtile deuice by meanes of a lye to haue brought our meÌ„ to destructioÌ„ but it toke no effect An aunsvvere vvhich y e king of Calicut made vnto certein noble meÌ„ The Oration of certeine captains vnto their generall for his better aduise in administration of iustice A false alarome giueÌ„ forth by y e Calicutians to terrifie the Portingals vvith all the kings Oration made to such princes noble meÌ„ as came to aide him in these vvarres A Torcull is as much as vvith vs an hermitage or such lyke pore kind of solitary relgious place The Mothers message to y e King of Calycut being in the Torcull Wher credit is impaired it is better to lurke then to runne abroad vvith dishonour the goodnes of the King of Cochings nature noted in being a meane to procure peace for his enimies The Lord of Repelin is also reconciled vnto the captain generall 1504. The fifte voiage to the Indias made by y e Portingales The Captain generals oration vvhith he made to his captaines masters and Pilots Orders that vvere giuen to euery captain Master and Pilot to keepe the same in their voyage The penalty laid vppon the breach of these coÌ„maundements A great leake giueÌ„ vnto one of y e ships through negligeÌ„ce of the sailers The leak stopped and the daunger thereof past they sayle forvvard Certaine Portingales sent vnto the Captain generall for a present The Captain generall goeth a land to visite the king of Cananor The state which the Captaine generall kept at his going to visite y e king of Cananor The preseÌ„t vvhich y e king of Portingal sent to the king of Cananor The king of Cananors brauery and state at his meting vvith the captaine generall The Mores for sake Calicut goe els vvhere to dvvell He vvold haue theÌ„ to escape froÌ„ their keepers come svvimming vnto him Two tvvo Italian ruÌ„agates iustly required by the Captaine generall to be deliuered A craftye deuise of the Italians to haue the captiues closelye kept for the assurance of theÌ„selues Embassadors are to keepe theyr estates for the honor of theyr Princes that sende them They met vvith spices better cheap nerer haÌ„d then at GraÌ„galor A ship of Calicut taken caried away The king of Calicut is novve come forth of y e Torcul taketh y e gouernement vppon him The Captaine generall of the enimies and his tvvo sons slaine The fire commanded to be quenched for y e pore christians takes that dvvelt there After a valiant exploit the Captaine Generall maketh knights in recoÌ„pence of theyr vertue An embassador sent to the captain generall from the king of Tanor vvho made the Oration folovving The king of Calycuts vvhol povver ouerthrovven at Tanor by y e king therof the Portingales the effect of the vvordes which the King of Coching spake to Edvvarte Pacheco at his departure The aunswere that Edvvarte Pacheco gaue to y â— king of Coching The good vvill of a thankfull minde is much more vvorth theÌ„ many gifts The great prouision of the Moores against so fevv small boates It had ben better to haue called vppon God to haue succoured them in that extremytye The Mores for feare leap into the sea drovvne theÌ„selues Here vvas a great slaughter of the Portingals in respect of other battailes sought The â—â—â—ber of ships and men vvhich vvere left in the Indias vvith Manuel Telez the Captain generall 1525. Indeede this Edvvarte Pacheco vvel deserued great honor coÌ„mendacioÌ„ for his seruice ⧠Imprinted at London by Thomas East dwelling betweene Paules Wharse and Baynards Castle 1582.
haue done so foule a déede yet I would haue tolde thée thereof that I had so meant to doe for that I was afearde of the king of Calycuts power But for that I doe take thée to be a man indued with reason I did suppose that thou wouldest not haue thought ill thereof For otherwise those béeing warned thereof it might haue bene very profitable vnto thée to haue remained frée from the enuie and mallice of the king of Calicut Which thing if so be that the Moores had considered of they would not haue tolde thée so great a fable Beleeue me if they could haue done thée a greater iniurie they would haue done it for the good will thou doest beare vnto vs. This I doe knowe very well but let not that trouble thée For although thou doest loose them and all the rest of thy subiectes yet thou doest recouer me and as many Portingales as héere remaine who all will die in thy seruice if it were néede for that is the onely cause wée did remaine in the Indias and in especially for there was no man that bound me therevnto if so be y ◠I wold not but only the fidelitye truth which thou hast alwaies vsed towards our men vntill such time as thou diddest loose Coching and diddest sée the same burnt For the which cause thou oughtest to estéeme the better of thy selfe for thereby thou hast exalted thy fame through all the Countrie and therfore thy name wil remaine for euer which is the greatest treasure that kings canne leaue behinde them and the onely thing that all men doe séeke for And beléeue me when the king of Calycut did first set fire to Coching the same was his destruction which was afterwarde well reuenged vppon thine enimies by the Portingales so thou shalt now bée as well defended by them And although thou doest thinke vs to bée fewe and a small Fléete yet I doe promise thée that very shortly we will séeme to bée verye many by our valyantnesse And I hope in God that we shall so defend whatsoeuer straight or passage the king of Calycut shall enter into where assuredly we will tarry and not remoue our selues from thence neither night nor daye and for the passages that are straight our armie is inough and therefore it skilleth not there remaine no more for the riuers for that these are sufficient And since that they chose me to remaine beléeue certeinly that they did well knowe they left him that shal excuse thée of thy trauaile and of the wearieng of thy men And therefore be thou merrie and resolue thy selfe that by Gods grace it shall not happen now vnto thée as héeretofore it didde when thou diddest loose Coching for I and these that doe remaine with me shall take vppon vs the whole charge and daunger of the warres How the Moores of Coching prepared to go from thence and how the captaine Generall stayde certeine of them that they should not departe and what more he did chap. 65. THe king being with this somwhat eased recomforted touching that the Moores had told him the Captaine general went to sée the streights to fortifie them which had great néede thereof But they all were wel furnished sauing onely the foord which he commanded to be fortified with stakes that ther might enter no vessells of the enimies In the meane time he was aduertised by a Letter from Rodrigo Reynel that a principall Moore of Coching and besides diuerse others did procure all that they could to leaue the citie that y e king might remaine alone that thervpon this Moore hath come twice to speake with the king of Calycut in his owne behalfe and in the name of the others This newes troubled the Captaine Generall a while howbeit to disappoint them of their suttle dealing and that the same shoulde take no effect hée thought it necessarie to execute this principall Moore that the others might conceiue some feare thereof This béeing knowne to the king of Coching he woulde not consent therevnto thinking that if so be that he were executed the others would make a mutenie immediatly and then there shuld be no victualls brought into the citie for that those did prouide the citie therewith in trucke of their merchandise and therefore he thought best to dissemble with them all The Captaine Generall séeing that the king woulde not consent therevnto tolde him that he woulde talke with the Moores himselfe and that he had thought to vse some policie that none of them should depart out of the citie But first he commaunded all his owne men to obeye him in all such occasions as should be néedfull or requisite which commandement the king also gaue out amongst his subiect this being done the Captaine general went with forty of his men to Coching to the house of this principall Moore called Belinamacar who dwelt hard by the riuer side requesting him to send for certeine Moores which he did name for y ◠he wold consult with them vpon a certeine matter which did concerne them all To whom the Moores came immediatly for that they wer afeard of him and when hée sawe them all he saide vnto them I Did send for you all honest Merchants that you shoulde vnderstand wherfore and for what cause I remained in the Indias for that it is possible that all you do not know Some there be that doe report that I do remaine to gather together the Factorie and so to carrie the same to Coulan and to Cananor but that you may vnderstand it is not so I will therefore tell you the truth I doe remaine for no other purpose but onely to kéepe Coching and if so be that it were néedfull or requisite to die my selfe and all those that doe remaine with me in your defence in preseruing you from the king of Calycut And this shall be manifest vnto him if so bée that he doe come for I promise you all that I will méet with him in the way of Cambalan wheras it is tolde me he will enter and if so be there he dare fight with me I will not doubt but to take him prisoner and carrie him with me into Portingale Wherefore vntill such time as you doe not sée any thing to the contrarie I earnestly request you that you doe not goe from Coching for that I heare that you are minded to goe from thence that you doe allure the residue of the inhabitants with you for as you are the chiefest and principalls so all the common sort of people doth follow you Now I meruaile much y ◠being men of so gret wisdome as you are you wil leaue your houses in the which you were borne the country wherein you haue dwelt so many yeres not for feare of any thing that you haue séene but onely of that which you heare which thing for women to doe were verye ill much more for you that are men But if so be that you would go when