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fresh effort to expel the- Portuguese. He then collected a 
force of 20,000 men, 16,000 of which he despatched by land 
under the command of a renegade Portuguese Captain called 
AMLAAR, While the Laksamana had to take the other 4,000 
men to blockade the Malakka roadstead. 
AMLAAR immediately marched on the town and very soon 
succecded in. making a trench sixty palisades wide near the 
village of Quillyn [7.c., Kampong Kling, as it is termed], but 
he was unable to take advantage of it, for Grornce ALBUKIRK 
had it repaired at once. 
The siege lasted for about a month, after which it was raised 
and the besiegers beat a retreat, on hearing that relief had 
been sent from Goa. This happened about 1525. They had 
hardly left when Martyn Axronso bE Souza arrived with a 
fleet to the rescue of the town, and he was told that during 
the siege people had paid fifty ducats for a fowl. 
The Governor appointed the said pe Souza Admiral of the 
Portuguese fleet in place of his cousin Garctas HEnRIk, and 
the very first act of the new Admiral was to blockade the 
river of Bintam with five vessels and so prevent the entrance 
or egress of anything. 
In 1526 Perur Mascarenitas was appointed Governor of 
Malakka, being the seventh Portuguese Governor. 
the King of Djohor soon after again besieged the town, 
but the brave MascarEenuHAs would not brook such provocation ; 
he began to take aggressive action, and declared war against 
the King ef bintam, who called his son-in-law of Pahang to 
his aid, but both the Laksamana of Bintam and the King of 
Pahang’s Admiral were completely defeated and put to flight, 
and the Portuguese conquered the whole island (7.e., Bentan).(*) 
‘The said King of Bintam (a creature of the King of Djohor, the 
Jawful King having been expelled) died of grief soon after. 
The other King then re- appeared and submitted to the Portu- 
euese who restored him to his throne. 
@ ) Parra y Souza states that Ligon ier Benn aaa 
twenty-one ships and four hundred Portuguese soldiers and six 
hundred Malays under Tian Manomep and one Sinai Raja, though 
it was well fortified and defended by seven thousand men. 
