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a preconcerted day, he entered the fortress with 

 a few folio irers, aod commenced krisujg the Por- 

 tuguese, six of wbom were kilied before Roy de 

 Britu had assembled the remaiuder and driven 

 tlie traitor froro the garrison at the very instant 

 that a party of armed Malays under Tuan Kalas- 

 kar were coming up to his assistance. The latter, 

 finding that I hey iiad arrived too late m the day, 

 feigned that they had hurried to the ashisitance 

 of the Portuguese, an evasion which Rny de 

 Brito was corrjpelled to give apparent credence 

 to, on account of the weakness oi his garrison. 

 A. D. 16U. Heg. Niuachetuan, a Pagan Malay who 

 ^vas Bandharra, or first Minister, of 

 Malacca, was this year, by the order of Pedro 

 de Faria, unjustly superseded in lii$ dignity and 

 office by Abdullah, king of Cam par. This affront 

 the proud heathen could not brook, and he ac- 

 oordiugly made a funeral pile, in the public ba- 

 zaar, of his most valuable goods, and suffered a 

 voluntary iticremation by seating himself on the 

 blazing and costly heap. 



His successor enjoyed the office but a few 

 months, owing to a report industriou&ly circulated 

 by Mahomed, the ex-king, that he was only 

 waiting for a favorable opportunity to de-iver the 

 city into his bands. The Portuguese, u ho had 

 suffered by the treachery of Tuan Maxelis, and 

 were rendered jealous by the paucity of their 

 numbers, lent too ready an ear to the rumour, 

 and er ecuted the innocent Rajah of Campar, in 

 consequence of which thei. name became uni- 

 versally execrated in the East, and the city 

 deserted. 



