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on board barbarously put to death in cold blood. 



Encouraged by this success, the king of Achia 

 determmed tu attempt the conque^t of Malacca, 

 and accordingly plotted with the feshahbancJur, or 

 Intendanr, of that port; but, the intrigues of the 

 latter being seasonably discovered, he reaped 

 the fruits of his meditated treacheiy by being 

 hurled headlong from one of the cattle win- 

 dows. 



A. 0. 1637. B^. The king of Achiu marie two at- 

 tacks this year upuu Malacca, in 

 the first of which he was driven off by a vigorous 

 soni#of the garrison ; and, being as yu:.uocessful 

 m the second, withdrew to Aclun. 



The Governor of Malacca, Dm Estevan de 

 Gama, on his part, reduced and sackt- d die town 

 of Johore. 



A.D. mr, Heg. The year 1547 was distinguished 

 by the arrival of the celebrated 

 Samt Francis de Xavier at Malacca, and a formi- 

 dable attack of the king of Achiu, who brought a 

 fleet of sixty t large gallie.s, with an army uf five 

 Ihousaud raen4 of whom a regiment of Turkish 

 Janissaries, five hundred strong, was the flower. 

 Although the garrison at this period (Ociober) 

 was very weak in poiut of number^ the Achinese 

 were compelled to re-embark and weigh anchor, 

 but in their retreat destroyed two Portuguese 

 vessels lying in the roads ready for sea. Falling 



gathered ironj Crawfurd'n Indian Archli«*la|ro, n«CMMnjy 

 •J «*^^ Imndiijd ihfltiifand, u numbf-r bv far 



