Chap. II. Portuguese Empire in the Eafl>Indies. 6ji 
As foon as Albuquerque recovered, he formed a Defign Security of the Place, and putting a good Garrifon into it, 
of making himfelf Matter of Ormuz ; and for that Pur- he gave the Command thereof to Rodriguez Patalino : He 
pofe affembled a great Fleet, and a confiderable Body of raifed one Utimut , an Indian Lord, who, by deferring the 
Troops, amongft which were two thoufand veteran Por- King of Malaca, had been very ufeful to him, to the 
tugueze that had ferved long in the Indies. But when he Pott of fupreme Magiftrate of th & Indians and Mohamme- 
was on the Point of failing, he received fuch Intelligence dans ; and, having received the Compliments of feveral 
as engaged him to alter his Defign, and to refolve upon Indian Princes upon his Viftory, he prepared to return to 
attacking Goa, a large and rich City in the Ifland of Pi- Goa. Before he quitted the Place a ConfpiraCy was difco- 
cuarin, with one of the beft Ports in the Indies. This vered, in which Utimut was principally concerned, who 
Ifland,’ which is about nine or ten Leagues in Circumfe- thought to have made himfelf Matter of the Place. As 
rence,’ was efteemed, from its Situation, the moft impor- his Letters were intercepted, the Proof againft him was 
tant Pott on the Coaft of Malabar. The King of Decan clear, and the General ordered him and his Son to be ex- 
was the natural Lord of it, and the Perfon who com- ecuted, notwithstanding his great Age, and an Offer made 
manded for him therein, was one Idalcan , a Moor by him of an hundred thoufand Pieces of Gold to fpare their 
Birth, and a Man of great Courage and Experience. He Lives. After this, and Laying there near a Year, he de~ 
took all imaginable Care to put the Place into the beft Pa- termined to leave a very brave Man, and experienced Qf- 
fture of Defence poffible ; notwithstanding which, the ficer Commander of the Forces at Malaca , with a fuffi- 
Iftand was reduced, and the City of Goa taken by Storm cient Number of Ships and Men. Thefe Precautions be- 
by the Portugueze , affifted by a Fleet and Army of an ing taken, he failed for the Coaft of Malabar but, in his 
Indian Prince, called the King of Onor , under the Com- Paifage, met with fuch a Storm as deftroyed the greateft 
mand of Timoia, his General. Don Alphonfo Albuquerque Part of his Fleet, with all the Riches on Board, and it was 
made his publick Entry into it on the 1 7th of February , with very great Difficulty that the General himfelf eft 
1510, with great Magnificence ; and having fettled every capecH 
Thine there, in the beft Order poffible, he appointed his After a fhort Stay at Cochin , and putting every thing 
Nephew Antonio de Norogna Governor of the City ; Gaf there in the beft Order they could, Don Alphonfo Albu- 
par de Payva General Director of the Commerce, and Pi- querque retired to Goa , where Things were in fome Con- 
moia, had the Charge of the Revenues, which amounted Tufion ; but he foon reftored them, and humbled all the 
to Eighty-two thoufand Pieces of Gold per Annum. This Indians in his Neighbourhood to fuch a Degree, that the 
Conqueft was not eafily maintained, for Idalcan returned Samorin himfelf fent Embaffadors to implore Peace, and 
with fuch a Force as recovered the Place, and the new to offer him Permiffion to build a Fort at Calicut , where- 
Governor Antonio de Narogna was llain in the Difpute, ever he thought fit. The Emperor of Ethiopia alfo fent 
which, however, ferved only to encreafe the Defire of an Embaffador to Goa, and from thence to Portugal ; and, 
Albuquerque to raife the Credit of his Nation, by fecuring in fhort, the Terror of the Portugueze Arms was now fo 
a Country and City of fuch Confequence, which, after great, that Idalcan and the Princes that had given the 
a War of lono- Continuance, he accomplffhed ; and this greateft Oppofition to the Settlement of that Nation in the 
City became Afterwards, viz. in 1 559, the Seat of the Indies, were glad now to attone for their Indifcretion, by 
Governor, and the See of an Archbifhop, and Primate of offering to accept whatever Terms Don Alphonfo thought 
the Indies ' fit t0 P re ^ cr ibe. Such a long Train of Succeffes, and fo 
The Conqueft of Goa , though, in itfelf, of vaft Im- fplendid a Scene of Profperity, would certainly have turn- 
portance, was far from fatisfying the Ambition of Al- ed the Head of a Man of lefs Abilities than the Great Al- 
buquerque , whofe Mind was continually agitated with the buquerque , to whofe Capacity the Portugueze were more 
Defires of extending the Power of his Prince, and his indebted for their Conquefts, than to the Armies and 
Reputation. It was with this View, that he failed with a Fleets which he commanded. 
o-reat Fleet to the Road of Malaca , where he demanded He had, indeed, all the Talents requifite for a Man in 
die Portugueze Prifoners the King had in his Hands n . his Station, and with thefe fuch a Degree of Diligence and 
The Indian Monarch put him off with fair Words and Pro- Application, as would have enabled him to have per- 
mifes, and the General being afraid that he might put the formed great Things, if his Parts had been lefs lhining. 
Prifoners to Death, bore with this Treatment for fome He loved the ancient Frugality of his Country, and ne- 
Time i but, at laft, was fo provoked, that he made an At- ver fuffered himfelf to be corrupted by the Power or 
tempt on the Place, and actually fet it on Fire ; upon which Wealth that he poffeffed j and, indeed, he made no Ufe 
the King of Malaca immediately fent the before-mentioned of either, but for the Service of the Crown. When he faw 
Prifoners, and offered to make Peace with the Portugueze the Difpofition of the Indians , to meafure every Thing by 
upon their own Terms. Thofe preferibed by Albuquer- outward Pomp, he feemed to give into their Notion, and 
que were extremely hard* for he demanded Leave to build affe&ed, upon publick Days, prodigious Magnificence : 
a Fort, where he thought fit, a Reparation of Damages But, in the midft of all this, he relaxed nothing of his for- 
done to the Portugueze , and a Sum of Money equivalent mer Severity, but lived in the midft of all his publick 
to the Expence of this Expedition. Splendor, as courfely, in refpeft to his Perfon, as any pri- 
The Indian Monarch, having confulted with his Coun- vate Man. In exabting the Dues of the Crown, he was 
cil, abfolutely refufed to yield to them ; and thereupon fomewhat fevere, but, with regard to his own Fortune, he 
Hoftilities were again begun on both Sides, which ended took fo little Care of it, that, except his publick Appoint- 
in Albuquerque’s attacking the City of Malaca by Sea and ments, he had fcarce any thing he could call his own. His 
Land with great Fury, and, after an obftinate Refiftance, Officers were his Children, and he took as much Pains in 
it was taken by Storm, and given up to the Pillage of the teaching them their Duty as an affectionate Parent in the 
Portugueze Soldiers ; and we may guefs at the Riches of Education of his Sons. He overlooked Mifcarriages, but 
the Place by the clear Fifth, which was referved to the punifhed Treachery, or Neglect of Duty, with inexorable 
King, and which was bought on the Spot by the Mer- Severity. Fie was extremely ready to reward, and all his 
chants for Two hundred thoufand Pieces of Gold. The Difcourfe at his Table was of the great Actions performed 
General .immediately caufed a Fort to be ereCted for the by his Officers, while he was not only filent as to his own, 
n While thefe Difputes Med, Sequeria, a Portugueze Officer, had the Command of a confiderable Squadron given him, which was to be fent 
in order to make Difcoveries ; and as he had taken part with the Vi&ory againft the General, he no fooner knew that the latter was inverted with 
she chief Command, than he immediately haftened his Departure. Sailing from Cochin on the the 19th of Auguft, 1 509, he arrived on the Coaft of 
Malacca on. the nth of September, and was entertained with a Shew of Eriendlhip by the King, who invited him to a grand Entertainment, with 
Intent to have murdered him, and all who came with him, which Sequeria avoided, by pretending Sicknefs ; the King then attempted to ftirprize 
the Portugueze as they landed to carry on their Commerce, in which he fucceeded better, killing fome, and making a confiderabe Number Prifoners. 
Sequeria revenged himfelf by attacking and plundering feveral rich Veffels that he met with on the Coaft, and then he continued his Voyage to Por- 
tugal. It was this Act of Treachery that induced Don Alphonfo Albuquerque to make his Attempt on Malaca. 
0 This Storm happened on the Coaft of the Ifland of Sumatra, in which Albuquerque found a new Opportunity of raffing his Reputation. The 
Ship on which he was a-board, linking on a Rock, the Crew hurried him into his Long-boat, and juft as they were putting off from the Wreck, 
the General faw a young Man fall from one of the Mails into the Sea, near his Boat. He 1 'prung himfelf to his Affiftance, caught him in his Arms, 
and thereby preferved his Life at the Hazard of his own. 
