PORTUGUESE SETTLEMENT. l-*3 



Liege, in the convent of the G-uUehiiites in 1371. He is engraven 

 on his tomh, armed, and treading on a hon. At his head, the 

 hand of one bleffing him ; and thefe words in the French of 

 the time, " Vos ki pafeis for mi pour I' amour Deix proies par 

 *' ;;?/'." His knives, horfe furniture, and fpurs, were, in the 

 time of OrteliuSf preferved at Liege by the monks, and fliewn 

 to fbrangers. 



The intercourfe which the Mufcovites had by their caravans Russians. 

 with this part of the eaftern world, will be given in a future volume. 

 I fliall not therefore introduce it here, but proceed to the firft dif- 

 covery of China by fea, by the Europeans, in the bufy fixteenth 

 century. In the year 151 5 Alvarenga, the Portuguefe viceroy of Portuguese-. 

 the Indies, turned his thoughts towards a fettlement in China ; 

 and beftowed on Ferdinand Pedro Andrada, an able officer, the 

 condu6t of the expedition, hi June 1517 he fet fail from Ma- 

 lacca, with three fhips, and arrived at the ifland of Tamattlabua, 

 four leagues from the main land of China. At that time the 

 coaft was infefted with pirates ; and foxt.Vin2il^\y Andr ad a fell in, 

 fays Oforio *, with the imperial fleet, who on fight of him (think- 

 ing him a pirate) prepared for battle ; but how great was their 

 furprize when they found that he gave no fign of hoftile inten- 

 tion, but failed peaceably with them till they anchored off the 

 ifle of 'Tama. I believe this to be the fame which Mr. Nieuhoff'i 

 calls Heytamo7t, and poffibly that on which Macao was built. 

 The Chinefe admiral there fent to enquire who thefe flrange 

 people were, and received fuch an anfwer as quite gained his 

 confidence. Andrada then failed with them for the port of 



* Vcl. ii. p. 244. f Voy. p. 36. 



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