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conftrued into fcar^ and forfaklng his new friend, he pftflTed ove? 111 the 
night to the Malay monarch, whofe protection he thought of mor^ C6n- 
fequence to him. When Alboquer^iie had fubdued the place, which 
flidde a vigorous red fiance, the prioce of Pafay, feting the error of his 
policy^ itturned, and threw himfelf at the governor's feet, tcknowledgcd 
hi» injurious miftrufl, and implored his pardon ; which i?as not denied 
him. He doubted however, it fccms, of a fincere reconciliation and 
forgivenefs, and perceiving that no meafures were taking for reitoring 
him to his kingdom, but on the contrary that Alboquerque was prepa- 
ring to leave Malacca with a fmali force, and talked of effecting his 
promife when he Ihould return from Goa, he took the refolution of 
again attaching himfdf to the fortunes of the conquered monarch, and 
fecretly colle^ing his dependents, fled once more from the proted:ion of ' 
the Portugucfe. He probably was not infeofible that the reigning king 
of Pafay, his advcrfar^% had for fome time taken abundant pains to pro- 
cure the favor of Aiboquerque, dreading the cfieds of his power, and 
had embraced every opportunity of recommending h mfeif to his friend- 
ihip. An occafion offered of dcmonftrating his zeal. Aiboquerque on 
his return from Malacca, met with a violent ftorm on the coaft of Su- 
matra, near the point of Timiang, where his fhip was wrecked. Part 
of the crew making a raft were driven to Pafay, where the king treated 
them with kindnefs^ and fent them to the coaft of Coromandel, by a 
merchant ihip. Some year* afrer thefe events, Geinal was enabled by 
his friends to cirry a force to Pafay, and obtained the afcendeocy there^ 
but did not long enjoy his powe-r. 
Upon the reduction of Malacca, the governor received mefTages from 
fiiyttdl of the Suraatran princes, and among the refl from the king of a 
place called Campdf, on the eaftem coaft, who had married a daughter 
of the king of Malacca, but was on ill terms with his father-in-law. He 
defired to become a vaflal of the Portugiiefe crown, and to have leave 
toreiide under their jurifdi£tion* His view was to obtain the mip5r- 
tant office of Bandar a, or chief magiftrate of the Malays, lately vacant 
by the execution of him who poffefled it. He feat before him a prefent 
