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S U M A T R A . 341<br />

out a fniall fleet which routed the combined force, before that the king<br />

of Lingen was acquainted with their arrival ; his capital being fituated<br />

high up on the river. In the next year, at the conqueft of B'mtang, this ISJ6king,<br />

unfolicited, fent affiftance to his European allies. ?<br />

However well founded the accounts may have been which the Por- I5»7.<br />

tuguefe have given us of the cruelties committed againft their people<br />

by the king of Acheen, the barbarity does not appear to have been only<br />

on one fide. Francifco de Mello being fent in an armed veflel with<br />

difpatches to Goa, met, near Acheen head, with a fliip of that nation<br />

juft arrived from Mecca, and fuppofed to be richly laden. As ihe had<br />

onboard three hundred Achenefe and forty Arabs, he dared not venture<br />

to board her, but battered her at a diftance, when fuddenly {he filled<br />

and funk, to the extreme difappointment of the Portuguefe, who thereby<br />

loft their prize j but they wreaked their vengeance on the unfortunate<br />

crew, as they endeavoured to fave themfelves by fwimming, and boaft<br />

that they did not fufTer a man to efcape. Opportunities of retaliation<br />

foon offered. b<br />

Simano de Soufa going with a reinforcement to the Moluccas from , Diogo do Conto.<br />

took

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