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fully in the pofleflion of the Englifh Eafl-India Company, as a refrefh- 

 ing place for their fhips returning homeward. The Portuguefe ftored 

 it with hogs, goats, and poultry ; and for many years after this, they 

 were wont to flop at it in then- homeward-boimd Eaft-India voyages, to 

 fupply themfelves with thole provifions and frefh water ; but it is very 

 difficult to find in their outward-bound voyages, becaufe of the trade 

 winds. The next year Vafco de Gama was fent to India with ten fhips, 

 and was the firfl who crofTed over direilly from Mozambique to India 

 and Soderias, with fifteen (hips. The following year they built a fort at 

 Cochin, fubdued the king of Mombaza and others on the eafl coaft of 

 Africa, and fent fhips to cruife at the entrance of the Red Sea againfl 

 the Moors, who were their greateft enemies in India. In brief, they 

 puflaed on fo numerous and great conquefls in commerce to India, that 

 a viceroy was foon eflablilhed there ; and afterward, under the condud: 

 of their great general Albuquerque, they became mafters of the ifle of 

 Ormus in the Perlian gulf; of Goa, and many other ports on the 

 coafls of Malabar and Cormandel, and alfo the coafts of the ille of Cey- 

 lon, where the befl:, and almofl; the only true, cinnamon is produced ; 

 they alio maflered the peninfula of Malacca; and, to complete all, the 

 famous Moiuccos, or fpice-iflands, were fubdued : Infomuch that the 

 princes of India began to court their favour. Thus was Portugal, from 

 a very moderate condition, in a very few years greatly exalted and en- 

 riched, by the fole enjoyment of the commerce to India, which that na- 

 tion then probably flattered themfelves tlrey were never to be rivalled 

 in. ■ 



1502. — Whilil fuch great acquifitions were making by Portugal in the 

 eafl, Columbus and Baftidas were making many ufeful dilcoveries in the 

 Wefl Indies for the future benefit of Spain. 



We fhould here alfo note, under this year 1502, that Cabral, the Por- 

 tuguefe admiral, in his return from India, fettled fadories at Melinda, 

 Quiloa, Mombaza, and Quirimba, on tiie Zanguebar coaih On the 

 coafl of Ajan alfo, the Porttiguefe reduced mofl of the princes to be 

 their tributaries ; infomuch that they foon became mafters of the whole 

 fouth-eafl: coafl: of Africa, as far as the entrance into the Red Sea. Be- 

 fore the Portuguefe came thither, the Arabians carried on a great com- 

 merce on this coafl, upon which they had made many lettlements ; but 

 how long they had been there does not appear. They alfo had traded 

 thence to Perfia and India ; but the Portuguefe ruined that commerce, 

 and got it all into their own hands. 



About this time alfo, Emanuel king of Portugal turned his arms a- 

 gainft the Moors of Barbary ; on which coaft he took and garrifoned 

 fundry ports, fuch as Magazan, Agadir (called alfo Santa Cruz by the 

 Europeans), A?amor, &c. ; moft of which places, and thole they had 

 before on that coaft, they have long fince lofl or abandoned. Neither. 



