32 



" terior, contained niDeteeo lacsas of inhabitants 



(l90,()00)/'» 



On the 2d May, Albuquerque sailed from Cochin 

 0. iJii, Heg, with his Beet con si siting according to 



»*^* DeFaria, of nineteen vesselsfoubijard 



of which were eight hundred Portuguese, and six 

 hundred Malabars, or native soldiers. On the 1st 

 July he dropped anchor in the Malacca road and 

 corcimenced a heavy caunonade, ou which " nmi- 

 •* titudes ran searching lor a place to shelter 



ihemselves from the bullets. Then said Muck- 

 *• dum to the prince, * Sulthaun, this is no place 



for the enjoyment of the divine union, let us 

 " return/ " % an advice which the pusillanimous 

 Mahomed lost no tinie in following, no t withstand - 

 iug that the king of Pahang had come to hi^ as* 

 sistauce with 30,000 men. 



The terrified Sulthaun despatclied au ambass- 

 ador on board to request that Albuquerque would 

 inform him of the nature of his demands, but the 

 Portuguese Commaader refused to state his terms 

 until his captive countryman were restored to li- 

 berty. This reply increased the general conster- 

 nation, and it was proposed to purchase off the 

 iiivaders, but Prince Ala-e^-din, the heir apparent, 

 indignantly remonstrated, and prepared to put Ma- 

 iaeca in a state of defeticc- Hostilities agbin com- 

 menced but, the Prince being nearly imsupporled, 

 negociation was afresh resorted to, and the 

 prisoners restored a« a preliminary. 



Albuquerque now sent his ultimatum — the re- 

 imbursement of Sequeira s expenees, and permis- 



* Leydec* MaJty Auiuilft. p. 328. 

 t Forty ibn ej accordirp; u* iht AxliiJ^. 



