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of his country at a certain price; and defray the charges of a fortrefs
which they then prepared to erect in his kingdom, and of which Miranda
d'Azeuedo was appointed captain, with a garrifon of an hundred
foldiers. The materials were moftly timber, which the ruins of Geinal's
intrenchment fupplied them with. After Alboquerque's departure, the
works had nearly fallen into the hands of an enemy named Melique
Ladil, who called himfelf fultan of Pafay, and made feveral defultory
attacks upon them; but he was at length totally routed, and the fortifications
were compleated without further moleftation,
A fleet which failed from the weft of India a fhort time after that of
Alboquerque, under the command of Jorge de Brito., ftopt in the road
of Acheen, in their way to the Molucca iflands. There was at this
time at Acheen a man of the name of Joano Borba, who fpoke the language
of the country, having formerly fled thither from Pafay, at the time
Diogo Vaz was affafhnated. Being afterwards entrufted with the command
of a trading veffel from Goa, which foundered at fea, he again efcaped
to this place, with nine men in a fmall boat, and was hofpltably received
by the king, when he learned that the fhip had been deftined to his port.
Borba came off along with a meffenger fent by the king to welcome the
commander, and offer him refreshments for his fleet, and being a man of
extraordinary loquacity, he gave a defcription to Brito of a temple in
the country in which was depofitcd a large quantity of gold : he mentioned
likewife that the king was in poffeffkm of the artillery and merchandize
of Gafpar d'Acofta's veffel, fome time fince wrecked there;
and alfo of the goods faved from a brigantine driven on fliore at Daya,
in Pacheco's expedition; as well as of Joano de Lima's fliip, which
he had caufed to be cut off, Brito being tempted by the golden prize,
which he conceived already in his power, and inflamed by Borba's reprefentation
of the king's iniquities, fent a mefflige in return, to demand
the refticution of the artillery, fhip, and goods, which had been unlawfully
feized. The king replied, that if he wanted thofe articles to be
refunded, he muft make his demand to the fea which had fwallowed
f hem up. Brito and his captains now rcfolved to proceed to an attack upon
the