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mafra, and the diftant Malacca : on his laft voyage he was 

 ftruck by the hand of death. He diredled his pilot to fleer for 

 Goa, the fcene of many of his glorious adions. He was in- 

 formed on the way that he was recalled, and two perfons, moft 

 difagreeable to him, were to fucceed to the government of 

 I?:'d/a. " Lopez SoareZy'' exclamed he, " Governor of India! — 

 " it is he ! it could be no other ! Hon 'Jajnes Mendez, and 

 *' James Pereyra, whom I fent prifoners for heinous crimes, 

 " return, the one governor of Cochin, the other fecretary ! It is 

 " time for me to take fandtuary in the church, for I have incur- 

 " red the King's difpleafure for his fubjedls' fake, and the fub- 

 " jedts' anger for the King's fake. Old man, fly to the church, 

 " it concerns your honor you fhould die, and you never omit- 

 " ted any thing that concerned your honor." 



He died in 1515, aged 63, off the bar of Goa, and was interred Dies. 

 there, but his corpfe was not removed to its native country for 

 numbers of years, as is faid, at the inftances of the citizens of 

 Goa, who venerated his memory. He died with the highefl 

 fentiments of piety ; even the Gentoos and ilfoorj, through devo- 

 tion vifited his tomb, fo highly and univerfally was he efleemed. 

 He was an inflexible lover of juflice, and of moft poliflied man- 

 ners ; yet his adions at Orjnzis, at Calajate*, and other places, 

 fhew how impofhble it is to fvipprefs an inborn and national 

 barbarity. 



All the tra6l of country from Cranganore almoft to Anjenjo, 

 a tra<5l of about a hundred and twenty miles, conlifls of multi- 



* Oforio i. p. p. 338, 339. 



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