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month of July 15 16; and, the fame day, the ifland of Zeyla, 

 in the month of the Red Sea, was taken, and its town burned 

 by the Portuguefe annament, under Lopez Suarez Alber^ 

 ^uiera. 



Neither the fufpicions tranfmitted from India, nor the 

 mean perfon of Matthew the ambaflador, feem to have made 

 any impreffion upon the king of Portugal. He received him 

 ■with every fort of honour, and tellified the moll profound 

 refpect for his mafler, and attention to the errand he came 

 upon. Matthew was lodged and maintained with the ut- 

 moft fplendour ; and, conlidering the great ufe of fo power- 

 ful a friend on the African coaft of the Red Sea, where his 

 fleets would meet with all fort of provifion and protection, 

 while they purfued the Turkilh fquadrons, he prepared an 

 embafly on his part, and fent Matthew home on board the 

 fleet commanded by Lopez Suarez for India. 



Edward Galvan, a man of capacity and experience, who 

 had filled the offices of fecretary of ftate and ambaflador 

 in Spain, France, and German)', arrived at that time of life 

 when he might reafonably expeiSt topafs the reft of his days 

 in eafe, wealth, and honour, found himfelf uncxpedledly 

 chofen, at the age of eighty-fix, to go ambaflador from his 

 fovereign to Abyflinia. Goez had much more reafon to 

 wonder at the ambaflador fixed upon by his mafler, than at 

 that of Abyflinia fent by the cmprefs Helena to Portugal. 

 The fleet under Suarez entered the Red Sea, and anchored 

 at the flat iiland of Camaran, clofc on the coaft of Arabia 

 Felix, one of the moft unwholefome places he could have 

 chofen. Here Edward Galvan died ; and here Suarez, moft 

 ignorantly, refolved to pafs the winter, wliich he did, fuffer- 



