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Portugal, and the nobility in general, that he procured an 

 order from the king for Don Garcia de Noronha, who was 

 then going out viceroy of the Indies, to fend 400 Portuguefe 

 mufqueteers from India to the relief of Abyffinia, and to 

 land them at Mafuah. 



John Bermudes, to fecure the affiftance promifed, refol- 

 ved to embark in the fame fleet with Don Garcia ; but he 

 fell lick, from poifon given him, as he apprehends, by 

 Zaga Zaab, and this delayed his embarkation a year. The 

 ne t year, being recovered of his illnefs, he arrived fafely at 

 India. In the interim Don Garcia died, and Don Stephen 

 de Gama, who fucceeded him, did not embrace the fcheme 

 of the intended fuccour with fuch eagernefs as Bermudes 

 could have wifhed. 



After fome delay, however, it was refolved.that Don 

 Stephen mould himfelf undertake an expedition from India, 

 to burn the Turkiih gallies that were at Suez. In this, 

 however, Don Stephen was difappointed. Upon intelligence 

 of the intended vifit, the Turkiih gallies had been all drawn 

 afhore. He came after this to the port of Mafuah, where the 

 fleet intended to water ; and, for that purpofe, their boats 

 were fent to Arkeeko, a fmall town and fortrefs upon the 

 main-land, where good water may be found. But the Moors 

 and Turks from Zeyla and Adel were now mailers there, who 

 to^k the 1000 webs of cotton-cloth the captain had fent to ex- 

 change for water and provilions, and fent him word back, that 

 his mailer, the king of Adel, was now king of all Ethiopia, 

 and would not fufFer any further trade to be carried on, but 

 through his fubjects ; if, therefore, the captain of the fleet 

 would make peace with him, he fhould reilore the cotton- 



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