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tives of ' Sallie rovers.' Albuquerque's soldiers 

 hewed off the hands and feet of women and chil- 

 dren, the quicker to secure their rings and armlets. 

 Torture and cruel death, especially wholesale 

 burning, fell to the lot of Moslems and Pagans. 

 In the seventeenth century even the command- 

 ers of the Hon. East India Company's ships, 

 according to Delia Yalle, committed robberies 

 ashore and on the high seas; The ' Grand 

 Mogul' regarded our people as a race 'of dissolute 

 morals and degraded religion ' — tetrse belluse, 

 suis molossis ferociores. 



In A.D. 1500 Mombasah yielded to D. Alvarez 

 Cabral, and, three years afterwards, the Captain 

 Eavasco settled its tribute. On August 13, 1505 

 — events succeeded one another rapidly in those 

 brave old times — D. Erancisco de Almeyda, the 

 first viceroy of Portuguese India, who had been 

 gravely insulted by the turbulent citizens, attack- 

 ed with his 20 ships, captured and burnt it. The 

 Sultan was admitted to the honours of vassalship 

 and tribute ; stringent regulations were made, and 

 the conquest having been placed in the first of 

 the three provinces of Ethiopia and Arabia, with 

 Mozambique as the general capital, the govern- 

 ment was confided by the king, in a.d. 1508, to 

 D. Duarte de Lemos. In 1516 Mombasah is 



