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in which the latter told him he could perceive he had written from the 
table of his nuptials, amidft drunken counfellors; he fitted out a fieetj 
under the command of the great Lacfemannaj* which retook Aru, and 
put the garrifoHj which confiftcd of fourteen hundred men, to the fword. 
This was no foouer effeded than a powerful fleet arrived from Acheen 
to fuccour the place, commanded by Heredin Mahomet, whom his maf- 
tcr thought invincible* A defperate engagement took place in the 
river. The advantage was a Jong time doubtful, until Heredin fell by 
a cannon ihot. His captains, difconceried by this accident, endeavored 
to Ihelter the fhips, by getting round a neighbouring point of land, but 
the violence of the current forced them out to fea, and entirely difperfed 
them^ by which means all but a few fell into the hands of Lacfemanna; 
'S4»- Fourteen veflcls that efcaped, carried the news of this defeat to the king 
of Acheen, who ordered that the heads of the captains Ihould be ftruck 
off, and that the foldiers fliould ever afterwards be drelTed in women's 
f547* apparel.* In the year 1547 he fitted out a fleet againft Malacca, where 
a defcent was made, but contented with fome trifling plunder, the army 
re-embarked, and the veflcls proceeded to the river of Paries on the 
Malayan coaft. Hither they were followed by a Portuguefc fquadron, 
which attacked and defeated a divifion of the fleet, at the mouth of 
the river* This viiftory was rendered famous, not fo much by the valor 
of the combatants, as by a revelation which was made from heaven to 
the miffionary Francifco Xavier, of the time and circumftances of it, 
and which he announced to the garrifon, at a moment when the ap- 
proach of a powerful invader from another quarter, had caufed much 
alarm and apprehenfion among them/ 
^^t^, Aru continued in the pofleflion of the king of Oojong-tana until the 
3-ear 1564, when it was retaken by the Achenefe, who fell upon it by 
♦ This famous warrior, who& renown ftill lives in tradition anvongfi the Malays, fought th* 
Pomgyefe during a period of forty years, and though often defeated liill ihcwed liiinillf fu- 
perior to hit fortutxe* He dkd ia battle in the year 1 550. 
c Mendfz Pinto. f Piogo do Couto, 
