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that Vicente Sodre on going out would capture it, he sent and 

 begged the admiral that he would not impede that ship, which he 

 wished to enter that port of his, although it was from Calecut. 2 



1 Vasco da Gama. 



2 Since the massacre at Calecut, in December 1500, of Aires Correa 

 and his companions, the Portuguese had declared unceasing war against 

 Calecut and all connected with it (c/. B 10, infra). 



A 14. 

 Correa i. 328. 1 

 [1502.] 



our people left Cochym, having finished loading the ships 



with all that they wanted of pepper and drugs which were in 

 superabundance, because the merchants of Cochym, when they 

 saw our great trade established, from which they derived such 

 profit, sent their ships to Malaca, and Banda, and Maluco with 

 their goods, which were Cambaya cloths, in exchange for which 

 they brought them all kinds of drugs, and on the return voyage 

 from Malaca they got cinnamon in Ceylao , and they had everything 

 ready in Cochym for the loading of the ships, and what was over 

 they sent for sale to Cambaya, whence they got their cloths, with 

 which they returned to Malaca. 2 



1 See also Stanley's Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama 364. This 

 extract is from the account of the second voyage. 



2 Cf. the extract from Correa below, A 20. 



A 15. 



Copy of a Letter received from the Merchants of Spain to their 

 Correspondents in Florence and Venice of the Treaty of Peace 

 between the King of Portugal and the King of Calichut. 1 



[December 1503 ?] 



There still remains to discover the island of Taprobane, 2 

 which according to Pliny is superabundant in riches and money 

 and pearls, and needs to be discovered. 



1 This is printed in Paesi Novamente Retrovati cap. cxxviii. It 

 gives information received by the Portuguese ships of 1502, which 

 returned to Lisbon 15 December 1503. 



2 Either Ceylon or Sumatra may be meant. 



