Chap. II. 
Portuguese Empire in the Eaft-Iiidies. 
Face of Affairs in thofe Parts altering foon after, Garfias 
repented him of the Peace, and rdolved to renew the 
War, believing, that if he could reduce this I (land, it 
would very much raife his Reputation ; to furnifh himfelf 
therefore with fame Pretence for breaking with the King 
of 2 Idor, he, before the Time limited was expired, fent 
to demand the Cannon and Prifoners to which Almanfor 
modeftly reply’d, that he would have delivered them up 
when the Treaty was made, if it had been in his Power ; 
but that having lent the Cannon to a Prince who was his 
Neighbour, it required fome Time to get them back. 
He had fo little Sufpicion however of the Governor’s bad 
Defign, that, being at this Time extremely indifpofed, he 
requelled him to fend a Phyfician, whofe Advice he might 
make Ufe of for his Recovery. Garfias accordingly fent 
one, under whofe Direction the King put himfelf, without 
the leaf; Referve, and was by him moll bafely poifoned. 
Immediately after the King’s Death, Garfias fent again to 
demand the Cannon and Prifoners, and becaufe the People 
defired a Delay till the King’s Funeral was performed ; he 
having all Things ready, expecting the Event, made a 
Defcent upon the Illand, attacked the capital City, took 
it, and plundered it, and treated the People with the ut- 
inoft Inhumanity u . 
As this was done without the leafl Provocation, in a 
Time of full Peace, and when there was not the lead; In- 
tention on the Side of the Natives to renew the War a- 
gainlt the Portugueze , it caufed among the People of that 
Eland, and of moll of the reft of the Moluccas , an im- 
placable hatred againft them ; foon after which, a Squa- 
dron of the Emperor Charles V. arriving there, was wel- 
comed by the People of Pidor , with all the Marks of 
Kindnefs, on account of the Spaniards equal Enmity with 
them to the Portugueze , and being received into their 
Port, they raifed W orks for the Defence of it, in cafe of 
an Attack from the Enemy. The Spaniards , who were 
under the Command of Ignigueza , alledged, that the Mo- 
luccas belonged of Right to them, as being firft difeover- 
ed by Magellan , with a Commiffion from the King of 
Spain , and that the Difpute having been fubmitted to Ar- 
bitration, was determined in their Favour. 
On the other Hand, the Portugueze , under the Com- 
mand ol Henriquez , faid, that the unjuft Sentence of the 
Cajtilian Arbitration had been reverfed by the Judges in 
Portugal and that thofe Elands were difcovered ten Years 
before the Voyage of Magellan in the Spanijh Service by 
Anthony Ahreu , who was font out to make Difcoveries by 
Alphonfo Albuquerque , in whofe Company was Magellan 
himfelf, before he had deforted his Country. Thus they 
difputed with Words for a while, but foon after came to 
Blows, the People of Pernate taking Part with the Portu- 
gueze , and thofe of Pidor and Gilolo with the Spaniards. 
The latter ftruck the firft Stroke, by befieging the Portu- 
gueze Fortrefs in Pernate , where, at the firft Attack, they 
took one of the Enemies Ships, and now the Spaniards 
and Portugueze had gone near to have attoned for the Mis- 
chiefs they had done to the Indians by the Deftruftion of 
each other, but that the Emperor being engaged in other 
Wars in Europe , negledted fo remote an Acquisition, and 
for a certain Sum of Money, yielded up his Right in the 
Moluccas to the King of Portugal w . 
This was look’d upon at that Time as very indifferent 
Policy, and as the Effects of his not confidering attentively 
the Advantages that might have been derived to him in 
Europe, by the prudent Management of his Affairs in 
America , and this becaufe his Thought’s were entirely turn- 
ed on the vain Project of railing an univerfal Monarchy 
by Force of Arms, whereas the Portugueze wifely content- 
ed themfdves with pufhing' on their Conquefts in the In- 
dies , and employed their Riches they derived from thence 
to focure themfelves againft their ambitious Neighbours in 
Europe \ from which Plan, if fhe had never varied, five 
might, have efcaped becoming a Province to Spain , as (he 
afterwards did, and all the unlucky Conftquences that fol- 
lowed from that Conjunction*. But it is now time to re- 
turn from theft Reflections to the Thread of our Iliftory, 
Matters being fettled in thofe Elands, the Viceroy Sam- 
payo , font out John Deza with a Squadron, to cruize, off 
Cananor , and at the fame Time,' difpatched Alphonfus 
Melia to the Sunda Elands, who, juft as, he had doubled the 
Cape of Comorin , met with fome Deputies coming to Goa , 
from the Prince of Cal e cur a , on the Pearl-fjfhing Coaft, 
with Offers of Tribute and Submiffion, upon Promifo of 
Affiftance againft his Enemies the Calecutians. 
In the mean time, Deza , upon his Station, intercepted 
all Ships palTing between C ale cut and Cambay a , to the in- 
credible Lofs of the People of both thofe Places, and land- 
ing at Mangalor , the Inhabitants deferred, the Town, 
which he plundered and ftt on Fire - s after which, falling' 
in with Cutial the Admiral of Calicut , he engaged and 
defeated him, and carried him Prifoner to Cananor j and 
about the fame Time Anthony Miranda failing to the Red-. 
Sea, took great Numbers of the Arabian Ships, and 
burnt foveral along the Shore Sampayo himfelf, off Ca- 
nanor , deftroyed the greateft Part of a Fleet of one hun- 
dred and thirty Sail of Moorijh Ships, bound to Mecca 
with Spices, and then repairing to Pore a (the Prince 
whereof was a formidable Sea Rover) he landed there* 
and took the Town, forcing the Prince to betake himfelf 
to Flight, who left fuch a vaft Booty to the Portugueze , 
that the Share of the meaneft Sailor came to a thoufand. 
Dollars. From thence he failed to the Northward, and 
near the Eland of Bombay , fell in with a Fleet of the Ene- 
mies, under the Command of Halijfa , Admiral of Cam- 
bay a \ whereupon proffering a Reward of one hundred 
Dollars to the firft Man who boarded one of the Enemies 
Ships, he immediately engaged, and having entirely rout- 
ed them, committed the Fleet to the Command of Mi- 
randa , who, foon after the Viceroy’s Departure, came to 
another Engagement with the Malabar ians , before the 
Town of Chanl , and gave them a fignal Defeat, killing 
great Numbers, and carrying off a rich Booty in Spices 
to Cochin \ foon after which, the Portugueze reduced the 
Town of Panor , made the Prince of the neighbouring 
Country their Tributary, and again routed Hallijfa , the 
Cambay an Admiral. 
In the mean Time, Nunho de Gun ha fet out from Por- 
tugal with a Commiffion to be Governor, accompanied by 
his Brother Simon de Cunha , who was conftituted Admiral 
of the Indies , and in his Way thither, attempting to put 
in at Monbaza , in order to pals the Winter-Seafon there, = 
was refufed Entrance by the King, but forced a Paffage 
into the Port, and making himfelf Matter of the Town,' 
gave the Plunder to the Mariners, and fot.it on Fire. De- 
parting thence early in the Spring, he made the beft of 
his Way to India , where he refolved to make himfelf 
M after of the Town and Fortrefs of Diu, fituate in an 
Eland of the fame Name, near the Entrance of the Gulph 
of Cambaya\ to which Purpofe, repairing thither with the 
Fleet, upon his Appearance off the Place, he received an 
H As foon as this was known to the Viceroy, he fent a new Governor to the Moluccas, one George Menefez, between whom and Garcias there 
happened a long Difpute, in which the latter was foil made Prifoner, and afterwards the former : And this, notwithstanding the Spaniards were ac- 
tually poffeffed of Pidor > and were endeavouring to get the relt of the Jllands into their Hands, which (hews the Infatuation of the ’Portuguese?, who 
tvoud not avoid quarrelling at that very Juncture, when Union was molt necelfary, and when not only the Extension of their Commerce, but the 
very being of it depended thereon, and could not be fecured without it. 
'\We have a clear Account of this Matter, and a very good one, in Sir William Mon fans Naval Trails. The Controverfy, fays he, to whom 
fhe Moluccas fliould belong, continued between the two Crowns of Spain and Portugal, and the Spaniards made fundry Attempts by Way of the 
freights, but evermore with unfortunate Suecefs. At lalt Don John III. of Portugal, and Brother-in- Law to the Emperor, willingly lent him three 
'hundred and fifty thoufand Ducats, when he went into Italy to be crowned Emperor, upon Condition the King of Portugal fliould no Way be mo- 
lefled in his Poffeffion of the Molucca Hands, till that Money v/as repaid ; which being never done, the Spaniards never fince pretended to thofe 
Elands. 
x I mean by this, that if the Portuguese had cultivated Manufactures at Home, in order to fupport and fupply their Commerce in the Indies, with- 
out engaging, as Aon Seb apian unfortunately did, in Wars on the Continent, and in Barbaty , they mult have become one of the principal maritime 
Powers in Europe, and have attained to fuch Wealth and Strength, as would effectually have fecured them forever againft, the Attempts of Spain. 
But the launching out into wild and fruitlefs Expeditions, to gratify the Humours of ambitious Princes, will prove Fatal to anv but fcoreft and’moft 
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