Chap.X. 
Malabar and Coromandel. 
into it, and making the beft way to the 
fliore, when Nomius giving the Signal to 
his Men, and exhorting them to do their 
Duty,, they leap'd into Boats kept for 
that purpofe, and following that of Ba- 
Is attacked him on all fides. The King 
being grown defperate, exhorted his Peo- 
ple to a brave Defence, encouraging both 
by his Words and Example, which made 
the Fight fo obftinate, that the Portu- 
guefcs were in danger of loling their 
:, Prey, Soz,a himfelf being flain in the firft 
TJicBrave- Attack, The Bravery of a certain Ser- 
ryof aSer- y^^^^ of Badur deferves our particular 
Badur notice, he being obferv'd to have wounded 
with 1 8 Arrows, as many PorfM^we/ei, till 
he was killM by a Mafquet-fhoc himfelf. 
In the mean while three Yachts arm'd r^-/U-> 
with Turks were fent from the fhore to Baldceus, 
fuccour th6 King; but being moft of them V/'V^ 
kill'd, and the King's Galley ftruck upon 
a Bank, he leapt into the Sea, and tho 
forely wounded, did fwim to the Galley 
of Trijlan Pavia, and difcovering him- 
felf to be the Sultan, beg'd his Life, 
which Trijlan Pavia would willingly have 
granted, but juft as the King was en- 
tring the VeiTel, he was flain by a Sea- 
man, who knocked his Brains out with a Badur 
Club. This was the unfortunate end of /^'i'"- 
Badur^ one of the mofl: Potent Kings of 
ylfiaj who not long before had been a 
Terror to all the circumjacent Coun- 
tries. 
C H A P. X. 
Sofar made a Prifoner. The Portuguefes become Majlers of the whole JJle, 
Mamud Kjng of Cambaja. A confiderable number of Ottomans fent to 
ihe Indies. Diu befteg'd by the Turks. A [mart Engagement betwixt the 
Mahometans and Portuguefes. Diu relieved. Garzias Noronia conflituud 
Vice- Roy. 
lUT to return to D/m, and the Sea- 
Engagement, where Sofar being ta- 
Spfar a ken Prifoner, was kindly entertained by 
Frlfom. isfomm. The Death of Badur ( tho not 
very honourable on the Portuguefes fide ) 
prov'd however of very great confe- 
quence, the Portuguefes becoming there- 
Portu- by Mailers of the whole Ifland without 
guefes much oppofition, the faid Badur being 
^hfiZnl (^efervedly hated by his Subjeds, by rea- 
''fon of his Tyranny and Cruelty ; 600 
Foot were left there in Garifon, and all 
neceflary care was taken that the Culloms 
both at. Diu and Rumenfladt might 
be regularly paid. Maffaia in his ^th 
Book of the Indian Hiftory, fays, that 
Rumen- Rummftadt or Rumopolis (lying not far 
ftadc. from Diu ) was built by Jaz.y ( mention'd 
before ) and got its Name from the 
Conjlantinopolitan Turks, that fcour fome- 
times in the Indies, call'd by them 
Rumes. 
The for- The Portuguefes found no great Trea- 
tuguefes fure of ready Mony at Diu, but confide- 
fortify the rable Stores of Ammunition and Provi- 
Sea-fide. ^^^^^ ^.j^g better to ftrengthen them- 
felves, fortified the City on the Sea- 
fide. 
Mamud B^idur was fucceeded in the Kingdom of 
King of Cambaja by Mamud his Sifter's Son, who 
Cambaja. being an Infant, under the Tuition of 
Driacan, Madremaluc and Alucan, thefe 
were foUicited by Sofar ( out of a hatred 
Vol. ill. 
to the Portuguefes^ to engage in a War for 
the recovery of Diu. Alucan having 
got together a Body of 5000 Horfe, and 
10000 Foot, and Sofar 3000 Foot, and 
1000 Horfe, they pitch'd their Tents in 
June not far from Rumenjladt. Sofa at- Tutor ^ 
tack'd the Town vigoroufly, but being vngage h a 
in one of the Attacks wounded in both his ^^^^^ 
hands, the Portuguefes got a little breath- 
ing time, and in the mean while re- 
pair'd the Walls of Rumehdfladt, which 
for fome reafons they had demolifhed be- 
fore: For Anthoniiis Sylveria having re- 
folv'd to fortify and defend the whole 
Ifland againlt the Indians, was difap- 
pointed in his defign by Alucan, who im- 
proving the lofs of fome Portuguefe Ships j-^^ p^^. 
by Tempeft to his advantage, gall'd tuguefo . 
the Portuguefes fo forely from his Ships forced intt 
in their Entrenchments, that they v/ctg f^^e Fan, 
forced to quit their Pofts ; fo that Alu- 
can landing his Men, foon became Mafter 
of the whole Ifle and the Suburbs, where 
there happen'd frequent Skirmilhes be- 
twixt them, the Indians he'ing not ftrong 
enough to attack the Fort, which was 
bravely defended by Lupo So^a Cov.^ 
tinho. 
Whilft thefe things were tranfadting 
in Cambaja, the Grand Signior, to re- 
venge the Murder of Badur (at the re= 
queft of his Widow ) had equipp'd & 
Fleet of 64 ftout Gallies, which being 
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