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in the favor of the Portuguese, but the strictoess 

 of the blockade in which they were held by the 

 Lac.<amana, whose fleet was now in vesting Ma- 

 lacca, and Pati Quitir, induced a famine which 

 brought them to great necessity: from this, how- 

 ever, ibey were at length relieved, when at the 

 last extremity, by the fortunate capture of some 

 vessels of the enemy laden with provisions, a 

 circumstance which compelled the Malays to rai^e 

 the blockade, 



Pati Unus, a Malay chief of Ja- a, isia. He«. 

 para in Java, made an effort this 

 year to recover Malacca from the Portuguese: 

 he accordingly sailed againt*t it with a fleet of 

 ninety sail* and an army of twelve thousand men. 

 Ferdinando Perez, then Governor of Malacca, 

 embarked three hundred and fifty Kuropeans and 

 some Natives on board seventeen gallies, attack- 

 ed this large fleet off Malacca, and drove it to the 

 river Moar, where lie ^nk and burned nearly 

 every vessel, Pati Unus escaping with difficulty 

 after having lost eight thousand men and sixty 

 of his largest vessels. 



Mahomed Shah, the ex king, not despairing of 

 recovering the city of Malacca, employed a stra- 

 tagem fyrthat purpose. He per>iuaded a favorite 

 officer, nan ted Tuan Maxeli.«, to mutilute I is 

 features, and in this guise to present himself to 

 the Portuguese as a victim of his master fero- 

 cious tyranny, Ruy de Brito was imposed on 

 by the trick, and admitted Tuan Maxelis unre- 

 servedly at all times into the fort. At length, on 



* ActiorttLng to Fa da. Crawiord nralkes it amotiitt to^ 300. Indian 

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