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succeeded l)y the death of the Viceroy D. Duarte,1 as we shah tell parts. On the receipt of this intelligence the Viceroy in
in its place, a thing that has seldom occurred in India. The Council resolved to dispatch another fleet to punish these
other ships were the Salvador? Captain Miguel de Abrcu, of the
Reliquias3 Francisco Cavalleiro, and of the S. Filippe1 Jofio treaty-breakers, and to prevent the Turks from repeating
Trigueiros, and all together took their course with great caution their aggressions; and probably one of the first sights
and vigilance on account of the report that there was of English.
that met Teixeira’s view on reaching Goa was some of the
If Pedro Teixcira was on board one of these ships,6 he vessels being got ready for this expedition. Learning that
must have reached Goa in September, 1586.6 What his this fleet, after accomplishing its purpose, was to proceed
first impressions of India were we do not know ; but what to Hormuz, where the captain of one of the ships, Bclchior
Goa, the capital of Portuguese India, was like when our Calaca, was to consult with the captain of that place -
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traveller first set foot therein, we fortunately do know, regarding the building of a fort at Mdskat to defend it
having had left us a graphic description from the pen of from the Turks,2 Teixeira appears to have thought that it
that talented young Netherlander, Jan Huyghen van would be well for him to take this opportunity of seeing
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Linschotcn,7 who had been a resident there for some years several places that he might not again have the chance of m
when Teixeira arrived. visiting. Accordingly, he applied for and obtained per
Just before our traveller’s arrival at Goa, news reached mission to accompany this punitive expedition, which, con 'X't
that city of the humiliating defeat that had resulted to the sisting of two galleons, three galleys, and thirteen foists,
fleet dispatched in the previous May, under the command under the command of Martim Affonso de Mello, set sail ■■■*
of Ruy Gonsalves da Camara, to the Red Sea and the from Goa on 9th January, 15S7.3
Persian Gulf,8 and of the visit of the Turks to the north The first place to which the fleet came was Ampaza,4
eastern coasts of Africa, which had resulted in the carry which was stormed, the king and his followers being put
ing away captive of a number of Portuguese, and acts of to the sword, and the town and its environs entirely de i;:
bad faith on the part of several of the rulers of those stroyed. Thence the ships proceeded to Pate, the ruler
of which threw himself on the mercy of the Portuguese,
1 See infra, p. xi. and was forgiven. The island of Lamo was next visited,
* Regarding this ship, see infra, p. vi. the king of which place was the betrayer of Roque de
3 The fate of this ship is described by Linschoten (vol. ii, pp. 191-
193)- Brito and his companions into the hands of the Turks.
4 This ship returned from Mozambique, and was captured by Drake This traitor, on hearing of the approach of the avenging
off the Azores (see Hakluyt, vol. iii, p. 123 ; Linschotcn, vol. ii, p. 167 ;
Calendar of State Papers in the Archives of Simancas, vol. iv, 15S7-
1603, pp. xxiii, 124 et seq.).
5 Perhaps he was on the Bom Jesus, alias Caranja, with Manoel de 1 See Couto, Dec. X, Liv. vii, cap. viii ; J. de Santos, Ethiopia
Sousa Coutinho, whom he afterwards (apparently) accompanied to Oriental, Pt. I, Liv. v, caps, iii-vi (translated in Pinkerton’s Collec
Ceylon (see infra, p. ix). tion, vol. xvi, pp. 725-728).
6 See Linschoten, vol. ii, p. 189. 2 On this fort see Geographical Journal, vol. x, pp. 609-612, vol. xi,
7 See Hakluyt Society’s edition of Linschoten, vol. i, p. 175 et seq. pp. 187-190, 305, 306. 4
8 See Linschoten, vol ii, pp. 183-189 ; Couto, Dec. X, Liv. vri, 3 See Couto, Dec. X, Liv. vii, cap. x. Linschoten (vol. ii, p. 194)
caps, vii, xv-xviii; also the King’s censure of the expedition in Archivo says that it left in December, 1586.
Portugucz-Oriental, fasc. iii, pp. 119-120. Ruy Gonsalves da Camara 1 Regarding the situation of this place, see Burton's Camocns: Life
was uncle to the Viceroy D. Duarte de Menezes. and Lusiads, vol. ii, p. 508.
