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Caldeyra for their captain. Thefe all flocked about the 

 king, demanding that he would lead them to battle, that 

 they might revenge the death of Don Chriftopher. Soon after 

 which, Alphonfo Caldeyra, exerciiing a horfe in the field, 

 was thrown off and died of the fall. In his place was 

 elected Arius Dias, a Portuguefe, born at Coimbra, whofe 

 mother was a black ; he was very much favoured by the 

 king, who now began to cultivate particular parties a- 

 mong the Portuguefe, in order to divide them, and loo- 

 fen their attachment for their patriarch, religion* and 

 country. 



The king marched from Samen to Shawada, where the 

 Moorifh army came in full force to meet him. They were 

 not, however, thofe formidable troops that had defeated and 

 taken Don Chriftopher : For the Turkifh foldiers, who were 

 the flrength of the army, expecting to have fhared a great 

 fum each for Don Chriftopher' s ranfom, thought themfelves 

 exceedingly injured by the manner in which he v/as put to 

 death ; and they had accordingly all to a man returned 

 into Arabia, leaving Gragne to fight his own batttles for 

 his own profit. Nor was Claudius ignorant of this; and 

 having collected all his army he gave the Moors battle on 

 the 15th of November in a plain called Woggora, on the top 

 of Lamalmonj in which the Moors, notwithftanding their 

 recent victory, were not long in yielding to the fuperiority 

 of the king's troops,. 



The lofs of the day was not inconfiderable. Mahomet, 

 Olman, and Talil, three. Moorifh leaders, famous for their 



fucceiTes 



