AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1563-81. 



fledde into the shippes to save themselves, tooke a 

 newe courage to themselves, and came on lande and set 

 fire on the houses in the suburbes, which houses being 

 made of boorde and strawe, and the winde blowing fresh, 

 in small time were burnt and consumed, with which fire 

 halfe the Citie had like to have beene burnt ; when the 

 Portugales had done this, they were without all hope 

 to recover any part of their goods againe, which goods 

 might amount to the summe of sixteene thousand 

 duckats, which, if they had not set fire to the towne, 

 they might have had againe without any losse at all. 

 Then the Portugales understanding that this thing was 

 not done by the consent of the king, but by his 

 Lieutenant and the Retor of the citie were very ill 

 content, knowing that they had made a great fault, yet 

 the next morning following, the Portugales beganne to 

 bende and shoot their ordinance against the Citie, which 

 batterie of theirs continued foure days, but all was in 

 vaine, for the shotte never hit the Citie, but lighted on 

 the top of a small hill neere unto it, so that the citie 

 had no harme. When the Retor perceived that the 

 Portugales made battery against the Citie, hee tooke one 

 and twentie Portugales that were there in the Citie, and 

 sent them foure miles into the Countrey, there to tarry 

 untill such time as the other Portugales were departed, 

 that made the batterie, who after their departure let 

 them goe at their owne libertie without any harme done 

 unto them. I my selfe was alwayes in my house with 

 a good guard appointed me by the Retor, that no man 

 should doe me injurie, nor harme me nor my goods ; 

 in such wise that hee perfourmed all that he had pro- 

 mised me in the name of the king, but he would not 

 let me depart before the comming of the king, which 

 was greatly to my hinderance, because I was twenty and 

 one moneths sequestred, that I could not buy nor sell 

 any kinde of marchandize. Those commodities that I 

 brought thither, were peper, sandols, and Porcellan of 

 China : so when the king was come home, I made my 



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