THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. i8g 



Galdeyra for their captain. Thefe all flocked about the 

 king, demanding that he would lead them to battle, than 

 they might revenge the death of Don Chriftopher. Soon after 

 which, Alphonfo Galdeyra, exercifing a horfe in the field, 

 was thrown off and died of the fall. In his place was 

 elecHied Arius Dias, a Portugucfe, born at Coimbra, whofe 

 mother was a black ; he was very much favoured by the 

 king, who now began to cultivate particular parties a- 

 mong the Portuguefe, in order to divide them, and loo- 

 fen their attachment for their patriarch, religion, and' 

 country. 



The king marched from Samcn to Shawada, where the" 

 Moorifli army came in full force to meet him. They were- 

 not, however, thofe formidable troops that had defeated and 

 taken Don Chriftopher : For the Turkifli foldiers, who were 

 the ftrength of the army, expecting to have Ihared a great 

 fum each for Don Chriftopher's ranfom, thought themfelves 

 exceedingly injured by the manner in which he was put to* 

 death ; and they had accordingly all to a man returned- 

 into Arabia, leaving Gragne to fight his own batttles for 

 his own profit. Nor was Claudius ignorant of this ; and 

 having coUecTied all his army he gave the Moors battle on 

 the 15th of November in a plain called Woggora, on the top 

 of Lamalmon, in which the Moors, notwithftanding their 

 recent vi(5lory, were not long in yielding to the fuperiority 

 of the king's troops. 



The lofs of the day was not inconfiderable. Mahomet, 

 Ofman, and Tali!,. three MoorLQi leaders, famous for their 



fucceiTes 



