But on receiving intelligence that he was no longer viceroy, summarily dismissed toskeway for his mortal enemy, Lopez Soarez, grief killed him on the 16th December 1515. Ile was buried at Goa, but in 1566 his remains were transported to Lisbon.
Soarez reduced Aden, took and burned ZeiLs, but failed in attack on Jeddah. In 1517 he made the king of Colombo tributary, and burned Ber berah on the Somali coast.
In 1524, Vasco da Gams came out to the cast for the third time, and ho too died at Cochin in 1527.
In 1529, the towns of Bassein and Tanna were subjected. During 1530 to 1532, Surat, Gogo, Pati, Mangarole, and most of the other towns on the coast of Gujerat, were destroyed by the Portuguese. In 1532, Aden again became tribu tary. In 1534, Bassein was ceded to them. In 1538, St.. Francis Xavier was sent to Goa to convert the nations, and from there to Japan his success was unparalleled. From that time the Portuguese power in India rapidly decayed.
In Further India and China their progress was similarly brilliant, but temporary. At Malacca, 200 soldiers of Portugal utterly routed 15,000 natives, with artillery. In 1578, Malacca was again besieged by the king of Acheen, but the small Portuguese garrison destroyed 10,000 of his , men, and all his cannon and junks. Twice again, ' in 1615, and for the last time in 1628, it was besieged, and on each occasion the Achinese were repulsed.
In China they made no progress, although they visited it twice during the reign of Ching-tih (1506-1522). In 1514, Raphael Perestralo, and a few years later, 1517, Don Fernand Perez d'An drade, landed at Canton. Both these officers were-well received by the mandarins at Canton, and d'Andrade was allowed to go to Pekin, where he remained as ambassador of Portugal, until a buccaneering fleet, commanded by his countrymen, committed such depradations on the coast that he was held to have been vicariously guilty of piracy, and, after having suffered im prisonment at the hands of Ching-tih, he was executed by order of the succeeding emperor, Kia-tsing.
The Dutch nation first came to the Eastern Archipelago as the servants of the Portuguese.
Ceylon was occupied by the Portuguese in 1596. Portuguese finally quitted Ceylon on the 24th June 1658, and were carried prisoners by the Dutch to Batavia. Portuguese and Mahrattas were at war in the early part of the 18th century. The war originated in the contest between mem bers of the family of the Angria of Colaba, A.D. 1737. It ended in the loss of the Portuguese possessions of Salsette, Bassein, and the neigh bouring parts of the Konkan, A.D. 1739. The Mahrattas admitted that they lost 5000 killed and wounded at the siege of Bassein.
The successes of the Portuguese along a coast line of 12,000 miles, from the Cape of Good Hope to the islands of the Archipelago, were to a large extent owing to the towns which they took having never before been attacked from the sea. But the names of the handful of brave and great men who for a short time were supreme on the seaboard, will be found under their respective letters.
Pedro de Covilham and Alfonso de Payva, 1487. Bartholomew Diaz.
Vasco da Gama, 1497-1527.
Alvarez Cabral, 1500.
Alfonso de Albuquerque, 1504-16th December 1515. Francisco Albuquerque and Antonio Saldanho. Duarte Pacheco.
Don Francisco d'Almeyda, 1505-1508.
Sequiera, 1509. D'Abreu, 1511. Lopez Soarez de Albergaria, 1517.
Raphael Perestralo, 1506-1522.
Don Ferdinand Perez d'Andrade, 1507.
Diego Diaz.
—Sir G. Birdwood ; Beveridge, Bikmore's Tr. p. 22; Elphinstone; Findlay ; Sir George Campbell ; Hunter, Imp. Gaz.