TOME I. PART IV. CHAP. IX.
1538. Celebrated defence of Diù by the Portu­guese against the joint forces of Sooliman Agha, the Turkish admiral, with a fleet, and Khwaja Zuffur with an army by land. Nuno de Cunha prepares a fleet of one hun­dred and sixty sail of ships, carrying one thousand pieces of cannon, and five thousand men, to reinforce Diù. The siege is raised.

TOME II. PART I. CHAP. I.
1539. Nuno de Cunha is superseded by Garcia de Noronha.

TOME II. PART. I. CHAP. II.

Bassein besieged by Khwaja Jehan of Gu­zerat, who is repulsed.

TOME II. PART I. CHAP. XIII.
1543. Assud Khan of Belgam gives presents to the governor-general, Don Garcia, to induce him to deliver over the Prince Mulloo Khan of Beejapoor into his hands. Ibrahim Adil Shah I., King of Beejapoor, negotiates to obtain the same object. Assud Khan pro­mises to make over the Concan, yielding a million sterling, to gain his purpose. The Portuguese governor-general supports the cause of Mulloo Khan. Assud Khan of Bel-gam dies. The Portuguese agree to deliver the Prince Mulloo Khan to his brother, in consideration of receiving all the wealth of Assud Khan. It is sent to Goa under the charge of Khwaja Shums-ood-Deen. The Portuguese consider they only received one tenth of the whole, which they estimated at ten millions of ducats.

TOME II. PART I. CHAP. XIV.
A. D.
1545. Mahmood Shah of Guzerat endeavours to recover Diù. He urges all the kings of the Deccan to unite in expelling the Portuguese from India. The Portuguese delay sending the Prince Mulloo Khan to his brother, the King of Beejapoor, according to agreement.

TOME II. PART II. CHAP. I.
1548. Don John de Castro governor-general of India. Second siege of Diù. Several French gunners in the service of the King of Guzerat. Sixty pieces of cannon are mounted on a work raised by the besiegers parallel to the fort. Khwaja Zuffur, the Guzerat general, an Italian renegado of Otranto, is killed during the siege, which is continued by his son Roomy Khan, and Joojhar Khan, an Abyssinian.

TOME II. PART II. CHAP. II.

Joojhar Khan the Abyssinian is killed in one of the assaults on the fort, and his nephew succeeds to his title and estates.

TOME II. PART II. CHAP. III.

Don John de Castro proceeds in person to direct the defence of Goa. Makes a grand sally, and after a desperate resistance takes all the enemy's works. Captures six hundred prisoners and two hundred pieces of cannon, of which forty are battering guns. Roomy Khan and Loor Khan, with about five thou­sand of the enemy, are killed and wounded. The enemy is pursued to Gogo, where a body of troops from the fleet land and take Joojhar Khan, the Abyssinian general, prisoner. Ibra-him Adil Shah promises to cede Salsette * and Bardes to the Portuguese, in consideration of their delivering the Prince Mulloo Khan into his hands. Bardes occupied by the Portu­guese. They persist in refusing to deliver up Mulloo Khan.

TOME II. PART II. CHAP. IV.

The King of Beejapoor sends an army to retake Bardes. The army is repulsed, and retires to the foot of the Poonda pass. The general-in-chief, Sulabut Khan, is killed. The Portuguese land at every port on the coast between Sreevurdhun (Bankote) and Goa, and burn them.

TOME II. PART II. CHAP. VI.
A. D.
1549. Death of Don John de Castro. Garcia de Sa governor-general. Peace concluded with the King of Beejapoor. All the Mahomedan kings of the Deccan send ambassadors to Goa.

TOME II. PART II. CHAP. XI.
1554. Mulloo Adil Khan, accompanied by three thousand Portuguese infantry, and two hun­dred cavalry, proclaims himself King of Bee-japoor. He takes the fort of Poonda, wherein he leaves Antony de Noronha with six hundred men. He cedes all the Concan to the Portu­guese. Antony de Noronha begins to collect the revenue. Mulloo Khan proceeds towards Beejapoor, is defeated, taken prisoner, and suffers death.

TOME II. PART II. CHAP. XIII.

The King of Beejapoor recovers the Concan out of the hands of the Portuguese. Bardes attacked by the King of Beejapoor's army, which is defeated by an army of three thou­sand Europeans, one thousand Canaras, and three hundred cavalry. The Beejapoor troops fall back on Poonda.

TOME II. PART II. CHAP. XIV.
1558. Daman taken by the Portuguese, of which place James de Noronha is appointed governor, with twelve hundred men to defend the fort. Bulsar taken by the Portuguese. It is at­tacked by troops from Guzerat. The Portu­guese march out on the plain, and are nearly annihilated by the Guzerat troops. Bulsar re-occupied by the Guzerat forces.

TOME II. PART II. CHAP. XVI.
A. D.
1561. The Portuguese fleet sails up the Surat river, and attacks the town. The Portuguese retire. Francis Coutinho viceroy of Goa. He brings

Sept.

with him three thousand European soldiers. John de Mendoza viceroy. Battle of Talikote,

1564.

in which the King of Beejanuggur is taken, and loses his head. Antony de Noronha viceroy.

1568.

Luis de Ataida viceroy.

TOME II. PART III. CHAP. VII.
Nov.
1569. The viceroy leaves Goa with a fleet consist­ing of one hundred and thirty sail of vessels, conveying three thousand Europeans, besides natives, to besiege Onore, which is taken. The Portuguese fleets cruise along the Malabar coast, taking all the vessels they meet, and landing and burning the towns. It is estimated that sixty vessels are destroyed, and one thou­sand men either killed or made prisoners.

TOME II. PART III. CHAP. VIII.
Jan.
1570. The kings of Ahmudnuggur, Beejapoor, and Calicut, resolve to attack the Portuguese in all parts simultaneously. Ally Adil Shah descends into the Concan by the Poonda Ghat with an army of one hundred thousand foot, thirty-five thousand horse, two thousand one hundred and forty elephants, and three hun­dred and fifty pieces of cannon. He marches without opposition to Goa, and invests it on three sides by land. The Portuguese have only one thousand six hundred soldiers and thirty pieces of cannon to defend the outworks. They make several successful sallies on the enemy's works. Sooliman Agha, at the head of five thousand men, gains footing on the island of Goa. Is attacked and expelled by the Portuguese, and loses his life. The vice­roy, Luis de Ataida makes overtures to Noor Khan, a Beejapoor general, to assassinate Ally Adil Shah, on promise of his being supported by the Portuguese in ascending the throne. The treachery is discovered and prevented. The Rana of Onore, aided by two thousand Adil Shahy troops, attempts to recover the fort of

August.
A. D.
1570.

Onore, but is repulsed. Ally Adil Shah raises the siege of Goa in the month of August, after an attack of ten months' duration; having lost twelve thousand men, three hundred ele­phants, four thousand horses, and six thousand head of oxen, part by the sword, and part by the weather.

TOME II. PART III. CHAP. IX.
Dec.
A. D.
1569. Furhad Khan, the general of Moortuza Ni­zam Shah, lays siege to Choul, * with an army of eight thousand horse and twenty thousand foot. The main army, under the King of Ahmudnuggur, descends into the Concan.

January.
1570.

The Portuguese estimate it at thirty-four thou­sand cavalry, one hundred thousand infantry, sixteen thousand pioneers, four thousand ma­sons, smiths, and persons of other trades, in­habitants of Turkey, Persia, Khorassan, and Ethiopia, besides three hundred and sixty ele­phants, an infinite number of oxen, and forty pieces of cannon of great size. A body of four thousand of the enemy's cavalry proceeds along the Concan to the north, and endeavours to cut off the supplies from Bassein and other places belonging to the Portuguese.

TOME II. PART III. CHAP X.

Moortuza Nizam Shah causes a general assault to be made, in which his troops are repulsed at all points. Two hundred Portu­guese desert from the fort. A general ac­tion is fought on the plain, in which the King of Ahmudnuggur loses three thousand men. Peace concluded.

TOME II. PART III. CHAP. XI.
June.
A. D.
1570. Chale, near Calicut, belonging to the Por­tuguese, is attacked by Zamori, with an army of one hundred thousand men. Chale is on the point of being taken, when a reinforcement

Sept.

with supplies arrives in September from Goa. Peace concluded.