TOME II. PART III. CHAP. XII.
Sept.
1570.
Dec. Antony de Noronha viceroy. A general peace concluded with all the Indian powers. A vessel belonging to the King of Beejapoor is taken by the Portuguese, after a stout re­sistance. The Portuguese ambassador at Beejapoor and his suite are confined in Bel-gam, till reparation is made.

TOME III. PART I. CHAP. I.
1581. Don Francis Mascarena viceroy of India. A Mogul force from Surat attacks Daman, but

1583.

is repulsed. Five ships arrive from Portugal. Moozuffur Shah, the ex-king of Guzerat, re­turns to his country, and with the aid of the Jam of Nowanuggur raises an army of thirty thousand men, and recovers great part of his kingdom. He besieges Baroach. The Por­tuguese send two secret missions, one to the ex-king, the other to his enemy, in order to take advantage of circumstances. The Mo­guls prevail. The ship of Don John de Castro, the son of the celebrated governor-general of that name, is attacked by two Malabar prows,

A. D.
1584.

and blows up during the action. Cufocan (per­haps Ghuffoor Khan), * the son of the Prince Mulloo Khan at Goa, aspires to the throne of Beejapoor. James Lopez Bayam, a Portu­guese in the service of the King of Beejapoor, arrives at Goa, obtains possession of the Prince, and puts out his eyes, in conformity with an engagement made by him at Beejapoor.

TOME III. PART I. CHAP. III.
1585. Don Duarte de Menses viceroy of Goa. Forms an alliance with the King of Beejapoor, in order to attack the Naig of Sungumeswur, on the Vijiadoorg river: the Portuguese agree to supply a fleet, and Roostoom Khan, from Poonda, is to march with an army by land. The Naig expelled from his country into the woods, whence he sues for peace, and his territory is restored.

TOME III. PART I. CHAP. IV.
1586. Six ships sail from Lisbon to India. In N. lat. 1° 30' they fall in with two English ves­sels, and attack them. One of the homeward-bound fleet is taken by Sir Francis Drake off the Azores.

TOME III. PART I. CHAP. VI.
1588. Death of the viceroy, Don Duarte de Menses.

TOME III. PART I. CHAP. VII.
A. D.
1588. Emanuel de Sousa Coutinho viceroy. Five ships arrive from Portugal. The viceroy re­turns to Lisbon.

TOME III. PART I. CHAP. VIII.
April.
1592. Matthias de Albuquerque viceroy. Boor-han Nizam Shah attacks the Portuguese at Choul. Gallant defence made by about one thousand five hundred Europeans and one thousand five hundred natives within the fort. The siege is raised by the garrison, on which occasion five elephants and seventy-five pieces of heavy cannon are taken. The Ahmud-nuggur general, Furhad Khan, with his wife and family, are made prisoners. His wife is ransomed, but Furhad Khan and his daughter become converts, and proceed to Lisbon.

TOME III. PART I. CHAP. IX.
1595. Eight ships come from Lisbon.

TOME III. PART II. CHAP. I.
1595. Don Francis de Gama viceroy. The Dutch, the first European rivals to the Portuguese, arrive in India in two vessels. Necessity re­quires the Portuguese to send two formidable fleets from Goa annually, the one to command the coast on the north, and the other on the south, as far as Ceylon. The squadron of the

A. D.
1597.

north consists of ten large ships. The two Dutch vessels fall in with a Portuguese fleet of six sail off Malacca, where, after fighting for EIGHT days, one vessel is abandoned and the other escapes, but is eventually cast away on the coast of Pegu.

TOME III. PART II. CHAP. III.
1598. The Dutch send out a fleet of eight ships to India. The fleet quits Amsterdam on the 13th

May 13.
June 8.

of May, and crosses the line on the 8th of June. They discover the island of Cerne, in lat. 21° S. to which they give the name of Mauricia (Mauritius). The Dutch proceed to the eastern archipelago. They discover Java and Amboyna. All the Dutch ships return safe

1600.

to Holland laden with spices.

TOME III. PART II. CHAP V.
1600. Ayres de Soldana viceroy. Six homeward-bound vessels despatched from Goa. They reach St. Helena. One of the fleet encoun­ters two heavy Dutch vessels at anchor. An action ensues, which is not ended, when the other five sail of vessels appear in sight. The

1601.

Dutch quit St. Helena, and make sail. A Portuguese galleon taken at St. Helena by a Dutch fleet of three ships carrying thirty guns each.*

TOME III. PART II. CHAP. VI.
A. D.
1604. Don Martin Alfonso de Castro viceroy. The Dutch are assisted by the islanders of the eastern archipelago, who, tired of the insatiable avarice of the Portuguese, unite to expel them from Amboyna. The King of Ternate also assists the Dutch with a fleet. Several desperate engagements take place between the Portuguese and the Dutch and their native

1606.

allies. Death of Don Alfonso de Castro at Malacca. Three Portuguese ships, laden with merchandise, are unable to sail to Europe this season for fear of the Dutch squadron.

TOME III. PART II. CHAP. VII.
1607. Alexis de Menses, Archbishop of Goa, as­sumes the office of viceroy without the title. The Dutch make two attacks on the Portu­guese fort on the island of Mozambique.

1608.

Gallant defence by the garrison, which suc­ceeds in repelling the Dutch.

TOME III. PART II. CHAP. X.
1609. Ruy Lorenço de Tavora viceroy. The Portuguese make war with the King of Candia on Ceylon. Their army consists of seven hundred Europeans and twenty-five thousand Lascarins or Chingala (Cingalese) soldiers. The King consents to allow his two sons to be educated as Christians. The provincial go­vernor of Choul, Abdool Kureem, sends out a fleet of thirty prows to cruise against the Por­tuguese. The viceroy of Goa remonstrates with the Nizam Shahy government, but ob­tains no satisfaction. Antony Pinto de Fon-seca arrives in India with the title of Visitor

A. D.
1612.

and Proveditor of the forts in India, and is independent of the viceroy. The northern squadron engages an English fleet which arrives at Surat. The English vessels lighter and better equipped than the Portuguese. They repulse the latter.*