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Portugal, and the nobility in general, that he procured an 

 order from the king for Don Garcia de Noronha, who was 

 then going out viceroy of the Indies, to fend 400 Portuguefe 

 mufqueteers from India to the relief of Abyflinia, and to 

 land them at Mafuah. 



John Bermudes, to fecure the afllftance promifed, refol- 

 ved to embark in the fame fleet with Don Garcia ; but he 

 fell fick, from poifon given him, as he apprehends, by 

 Zaga Zaab, and this delayed his embarkation a year. The 

 next year, being recovered of his illnefs, he arrived fafcly at 

 India. In the interim Don Garcia died, and Don Stephen 

 de Gama, who fuccceded him, did not embrace the fchemc 

 of the intended fuccour with fuch eagernefs as Bermudes 

 could have wiflied. 



After fomc delay, however, it was refolved that Don 

 Stephen Ihould himfclf undertake an expedition from India, 

 to burn the Turkifli gallics that were at Suez. In this, 

 however, Don Stephen was difappointed. Upon intelligence 

 of the intended vifit,the Turkifh gallics had been all drawn 

 afliorc. He came after this to the port of Mafuah, where the 

 fleet intended to water ; and, for that purpofe, their boats 

 were fent to Arkecko, a fmall town and fortrefs upon ^Ile 

 main-land, where good water may be found. But the Moors 

 and Turks from Zeyla and Adcl were nowmaflers there, who 

 took the 1 000 webs of cotton-cloth the captain had fent to ex- 

 change for water and provifions, and fent him word back, that 

 his mailer, the king of Adel, was now king of all Ethiopia, 

 and would not fuffer any further trade to be carried on, but 

 through his fubje^fts •, if, therefore, the captain of the fleet 

 would make peace with him, he fliould rcitore the cotton- 



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