Vol. XI, Nos. 7 & 8.] Monserrate’s M ongolicae Legationis. 193 
[V.8.] 
THe Surat [norment,! 
Translated from Diogo de Couto, Decada X , Liv. IT, C. 4.9 
By R. G. Wurreway. 
Of what happened to the “ brave fleet’’ at Surrate with a ship of 
aliche Mahamed: and how the Mogors attacked some of our 
soldiers: and how Diogo Lopes Coutinho burned the Village 
of the Abyssinians, and of other matters. 
[P. 169] Diogo Lopes Coutinho, the Captain of the ‘‘ brave 
fleet’’.3 left the Goa bar, as we said at the end of Ch. I of 
ok II, and sailed North to blockade. the Surrate river and 
Prevent, as he was ordered, the starting of the ship of Caliche 
hamede, the Captain of that Fort, for he intended to send 
them without a Permit. The Viceroy had heard that, when 
this Caliche was at Hecbar’s Court and they were speaking 
ha Sent to ask the Viceroy to grant for his ship,* Caliche, 
Wishing to gain favour with him, said that he too would 
snd a ship, and that his Permit was here, [P. 170] pointing 
'o the handle of the sword he bore at his waist. After he 
had said this before Hecbar, he wrote to Surrate and ordered 
that. his ship for Mecca should be so well provided that, if she 
het the whole Portuguese fleet, they could not stop her. 
Was done by his brother who was then Captain. He 
pahged for sufficient artillery, munitions and crew to enable 
her to defend herself. His Damao letters told the Viceroy 
of all this, and it was a state necessity to disabuse this Caliche 
Of the idea that he could navigate the seas without a Permit; 
sent Diogo Lopes to Surrate to watch that ship 
with the whole Fleet and account for her if she left the harbour 
a out a Permit. This Caliche was by caste a Chacuthou,° 
: Poor parents; as a boy, he learned his letters in company 
ki Hecbar and became a learned man, and, as he had from 
‘od counsel, so that he was advanced beyond the very prin- 
and had sufficient authority [P. 171] to place his brothers 
2 ge, a nt | tea : —— 
Z : few notes. 
Some onserrate, Op. cit., pp. 625-626.—Here also I add a 
Moen, S.) 8° dropped out in the translation. I restore them. [H. 
3 1 insert the pagination of the Lisbon edn., 1778, Tom. VI, Pt. I. 
+ Thi dos Aventureiros. 
60 '8 Would be in 1575.—R. G. W. 
6 ha, atat.— HH. B. : : ra 
Would “hap “Ser diante dello dos principaes, not principes: his advice 
Preferred to that of the chief men in the kingdom. 
