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month of July 15 16; and, the fame day, the ifland of Zeyla, 

 in the mouth of the Red Sea, was taken, and its town burned 

 by the Portuguefe armament, under Lopez Suarez Alber- 

 guiera. 



Neither the fufpicions tranfmitted from India, nor the 

 mean perfon of Matthew the ambafTador, feem to have made 

 any impreffion upon the king of Portugal. He received him 

 with every fort of honour, and teftified the moil profound 

 refpecl for his mailer, and attention to the errand he came 

 upon. Matthew was lodged and maintained with the ut- 

 moil fplendour ; and, coniidering the great ufe of fo power- 

 ful a friend on the African C€>aft of the Red Sea, where his 

 fleets would meet with all fort of proviiion arul protection, 

 while they purfued the Turkiili fquadrons, he prepared an 

 embafly on his part, and fent Matthew home on board the 

 fleet commanded by Lopez Suarez for India. 



Edward Galvan, a man of capacity and experience, who 

 had filled the offices of fecretary of ilate and ambaiTador 

 in Spain, France, and Germany, arrived at that time of life 

 when he might reafonably expect to pafs the reil of his days 

 in eafc, wealth, and honour, found himfelf unexpectedly 

 chofen, at the age of eighty-fix, to go ambaiTador from his 

 fovereign to Abyffinia. Goez had much more reafon to 

 wonder at the ambaiTador fixed upon by his mailer, than at 

 that of Abyfiinia fent by the emprefs Helena to Portugal. 

 The fleet under Suarez entered the Red Sea, and anchored 

 at the flat ifland of Camaran, clofe on the coail of Arabia 

 Felix, one of the moil unwholefome places he could have 

 chofen. Here Edward Galvan died ; and here Suarez, moil 

 ignorantly, refolved to pafs the winter, which he did, fufter- 



