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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40439	The life of Dom John de Castro, the fourth vice-roy of India wherein are seen the Portuguese's voyages to the East-Indies, their discoveries and conquests there, the form of government, commerce, and discipline of warr in the east, and the topography of all India and China : containing also a particular relation of the most famous siege of Dio, with a map to illustrate it / by Jacinto Freire de Andrada, written in Portuguese ; and by Sr Peter Wyche, Kt., translated into English.; Vida de Dom João de Castro, quarto viso-rey da India. English	Freire de Andrade, Jacinto, 1597-1657.; Wyche, Peter, Sir, 1628-1699?	1663 (1663)	Wing F2155; ESTC R7129	235,174	319

without asking any employment or reward counting that Honour more his own he went to winn than that he might carry with him 16 In that expedition Dom Garcia de Noronha his Brother-in-law went Governour to the Indies who look'd upon Dom Iohn de Castro as one fit to succeed him though he then past but for a private Souldier as soon as the King knew Iohn's resolution he ordered him a Thousand Crusades yearly all the time he serv'd in the Indies and by his Letters Patents the Government of the Fortress of Ormus which he I know not if with greater ambition or temper refus'd the Memory of rewards rejected being rarer than of those accepted an Action more easily prais'd than imitated 17. Dom Iohn de Castro took Shipping with his Son Dom Alvaro then about thirteen giving him for the pass-time of that Age the Dangers and Tempests of so long a Voyage Garcia's Fleet arriv'd prosperously at the Indies where he found the Governour Nuno de Cunha going with a Fleet to the relief of Dio and to Fight the Turks Galleys which lay before it in that famous siege Antonio de Sylveira held out Dom Garcia at once with the possession of the Government took on him the Obligation of succouring the place in which service Dom Iohn de Castro offer'd himself and as a Souldier of fortune earnest upon 't put himself on the first Ship as if he fore-saw those future Triumphs Dio call'd him to but the retreat of the Turks lost Dom Garcia the Victory or rather gave it him without Blood-shed if less glorious more secure 18. Dom Garcia Dy'd in a little time to whom succeeded Dom Estevaon da Goma one who had in the Indies the Reputation of his Family and was likely to have had the Fortune had not his Government been so short He engag'd in an Action great in the danger and the glory of it which was to pass the streight of the Red-Sea and burn the Turks Galleys which were Building at Sues with intent as 't was given out to drive the Portugues out of India a design the Turk thought worthy his Power 19. When all the Fleet was under Sail there was not any Souldier of Courage not inspirited by the hazard of so extraordinary an action of as much Fame in the undertaking as Victory Dom Estevaon de Gama set Sail with twelve great Ships and sixty small Boats the first of Ianuary 1541. here Dom Iohn de Castro had the Command of a Gallione and pursuing their Voyage with Easterly winds they all though scattered saw the Coast of Arabia The Governour Dom Estevaon da Gama made it about Monte Felix and arriv'd at the mouth of the Streight expected the other Ships of his Convoy here they had notice that the Enemies Galleys were drawn on shore and so watch'd that there was no Burning 'em without open force which for the Flats and Shelves of that Port would be impossible to our Round-bottom'd Ships Yet Dom Estevaon da Gama slighting the advice and danger went forward with some small Barks one of which Dom Iohn de Castro leaving his Ship Commanded They past by the Primero Islands which lye in twelve degrees and ½ and by the Bay of Velha which is in almost thirteen they Anchord in the Bay of Fortune which is in the same heighth In all the Creeks and Bays from the mouth of the Streight to Sues was Dom Iohn taking the height of the Sun and making a Journal discoursing sometimes like a Natural Philosopher sometimes like a Sea-man showing how blind the bare Experience of Pilots is without the rules of Art here with as much Judgment as he had Courage he Learnedly canvas'd the Reasons why the Red-Sea was call'd so and the Natural causes of the over-flow of Nile in the Summer a Theme which hath kept many Wits awake yet hath Nature for so many years kept her own secret but we reckon as the least part of this Mans greatness that which the Romans with so swelling Rhetorick write of their Cesar that he manag'd a Pen as Judiciously as he did a Sword Couragiously This and other Tracts of which we promise you more Light writ at Sea in Storms and Winds he Dedicated to the Infant Dom Lewis presenting him with the Fruits of that Learning they suck'd in together 20. From this Harbour they had a sight of Mount Sinai where the Angels laid the Reliques of St. Katherine in a famous Repository of their own Building at the sight Dom Estevaon da Gama Knighted Dom Alvaro de Castro who in memory of so great a Sanctuary took for his Crest the Katherine-wheel which his Family doth Religiously give to this day we will give no particular account of that design because the Vigilancy of the Turks hindered it from taking effect 21. Dom Iohn returning to the Kingdome as if designedly giving the Palms of the East time to grow which were afterwards to Crown his Victories brought no other Riches on shore but the Fame of his Actions and being yet in his Sea-cloaths those too scarce dry was by the King chosen to be Admiral of the Navy of the Coast putting him on new Employment in recompence of his former Services Dom Iohn immediately put to Sea in the year 1543. to Convoy those Ships which were expected from the Indies and plying too and again in his Station spy'd a French Corsaire who had with seven Ships infested those Seas and had made Prize of some of ours which had Embold●ed and Enrich'd him as soon as Dom Iohn saw him with his Fleet before the Wind he made up to him and setting on the Enemies Admiral Boarded him and after a brave Defence made him yield two Ships he sunk the rest by the advantage of the Night sav'd themselves the Circumstances of this Fight are not to be found in Writing the Carelesness of other excusing our silence 22. Dom Iohn in a few days saw our Ships when by Saluting one the other they rejoyc'd for the overthrow of the Corsaire they came together over the Barr of Lisbone the applause of his reception being so general that he seem'd to have already weathered the storms of Hatred or Envy an Happiness or Misery which Great men in their Graves only purchase or avoid In this success Dom Iohn had no other reward than that of the Victory for when the Debt is great Kings not to be thought Niggards chuse rather to appear Ungratefull being more willing to confess the Vices of their Person than their Majesty 23. 'T was but a little time Dom Iohn had to rest in the content of his Victory being forc'd for a business of greater moment to put on his Arms again as I will though against my Custom more largely relate taking it higher not to Disjoynt the History That famous Pirat Haradin Barba-Rossa found himself almost quite broken with the loss of Tunis and