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once more doubled the Cape, picking up several vessels of 

 his company, which he went to look for in those ports. 



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Dec. V., Bk. x., Chap. vi. 



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Cogecemacadim 1 , since at the first he had argued 



against going 2 , could not find means to again justify it; not 

 because he was afraid of anything, because if he had had any 

 suspicions he would not have gone on board a galleon that had 

 arrived a few days before from Ceilao 3 and anhcored in that 

 bay, the captain of which was Pero de Mesquita, to which 

 Cogecemacadim went to see some elephants that it had brought, 

 and he went on board the galleon quite at his ease and with full 

 assurance, without fearing anything. 



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1 Regarding the khwdja Shamsuddin and the story of which this 

 extract forms a part, see Whiteway 285-9. 



2 To Goa, whither the Portuguese were trying to inveigle him from 

 Cananor. 



3 This was probably the vessel that had (as usual) gone in September 

 1544 to fetch the tribute and other cinnamon for the loading of the 

 homeward-bound ships (c/. supra, p. 118, note 5 ). 



