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Having gained this victory 1 , which was one of the 



famous ones of India, Martini Afonso de Sousa commanded 

 to sack the enemies' quarters, where they found great spoils, 



And among this was captured an umbrella, which the 



Qamorim was sending to Madune 2 ; 



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Barros. 



Dec. IV., Bk. viii. , Chap. xii. 



Of what Martim Afonso de Sousa, captain-major of the sea, 

 did when going in search of an armada of the king of 

 Calicut's, the captain-major of which was Pate Mar car. 



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Also on the coast of Calle and Callecare, which is 



beyond Cape Comorij, in the fishery of seed-pearl, because of 

 it there was collected there another great number of them 3 ; 

 and if the Portuguese had not entered India they would now 



have been masters of its whole coast, and of Ceilam ; 



And because at this time there nourished greatly a Moor by 

 the name of Pate Marcar 4 , who went rowing about those seas 

 in great force, and doing us some injuries, it will be necessary 

 to treat a little of him. 



This Moor lived in Cochij , and with two ships that he had 

 carried on a large trade in many wares that he loaded for 

 Cambaia, with cartazes 5 of safe conduct from the captains of 

 Cochij. These ships were taken from him by Portuguese, 

 without the cartazes that he carried being valid with them. 

 And because he had no restitution for this loss, desiring to 

 recoup himself for it, like an aggrieved man as he was, he 

 transferred himself to Calecut with his household, and 

 became a pirate 6 ; whereupon the king of Calecut, seeing 



1 See G. Lit. Reg. iii. 213, iv. 205 ; Whiteway 252-3 ; Lopes 63-4. 

 The engagement took place in January 1538. 



2 As a token, doubtless, of his recognition of Mayadunne's claim to 

 the kingdom of Ceylon (see Hob. -Job. s.v. Umbrella "). 



3 Moors, " the greatest enemies that the Portuguese have in India," 

 of whose widespread dispersion throughout the East Barros (or Lavanha) 

 speaks in the first part of this chapter. 



4 See page 57, note 2 . 



5 Passports. On these see Pyr. ii. 206. 



6 On piracy in Portuguese times see Whiteway 47 ff. - 



