WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. Ill 



his advice, and after feveral aflaults made himfelf mailer of 

 the city by an agreement with the inhabitants. This happened 

 on February 16, 1510. The citizens took tlie oaths of allegiance 

 to Emmanuel \ he found in the place immenfe quantities of 

 ammunition, forty great cannon, and in the docks forty men of 

 \var, and in the ftables numbers of fine Perfian and Arabia?! 

 horfes *. He himfelf refided in the royal palace : the fame of 

 his valor and prudence fpread far and wide. He received em- 

 baffies from feveral of the Indian monarchs, and even was 

 encouraged to fend an envoy to the fophy of Perjia. 



Unfortuately a mutinous fpirit pervaded his army, and even 

 his principal officers. This naturally infected his new fubjeds, 

 who, repenting their difloyalty, and difgufled with their fudden 

 fubmiflion to a foreign and Chrijlian yoke, conveyed their fen- 

 timents to their late fovereign. He affembled a mighty army 

 on the continent, and notwithftanding every endeavor of the 

 able Albuquerque, efFe(5led a landing on the ifland. The Por~ 

 tuguefe defended themfelves with great valor, but finding the 

 place no longer tenable, their commander determined to retire. 

 He embarked with great fecrecy every thing that was necefTary ; 

 when, on the 30th oi May of the fame year, after a fliarp con- 

 fli(5t, he made good his retreat to Rapa?ider, a neighboring town, 

 where he refolved to winter!. Zabaim proved a brave and 

 adtive enemy : Albuquerque was more than once obliged to re- 

 move his quarters : at length, receiving a flrong reinforcement 

 oiPortuguefe, and other fupplies,he renewed his attempt on Goay 



* Oforio, ji. p. 4. f Oforioj ii. p. 13. 



and, 



