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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

the Portuguese out of India This Siege began Antonio da Silvera being Governour of Dio July 1538. the first Army which came against the place consisting of six thousand Horse and thirteen thousand Foot under the Command of Alucan and Coge-Sofar and in September Solomon Bashaw Admiral of the Turks came to their Relief with a Fleet of seventy six Vessels full of Choise men and a suitable preparation of all other necessaries There was not wanting by Sea or Land the personal and constant gallantry of Assaults the subtilty of Stratagem and uninterrupted Battery of great Guns against a few men taken unprovided yet did the Enemy raise the Siege himself at the end of October and the Vice-Roy Dom Garcia de Noronha found him gone when he came to their Relief with one hundred and sixty Sail. 17. The subjection all India was in under the Fortress of Dio the old Animosities for the first Baffle received at that place and Mahumed's revenge for the Death of his Father Badur kill'd by the Portuguese begot the second Siege of Dio 1546. the chief Story of our History which if not much prejudiced by a lessening Translation may probably appear one of the greatest Actions on Record Here Envy cannot fasten that with which she so disparagingly blasted Alexanders Expeditions and Conquests in Asia That he had to do with unarm'd and unpolisht Men master'd to his hand by Vice and Luxury Courage Discipline Design and Arms were here in that height as they seem'd not to be newly learn'd in the East and must have prevailed against any one but a Dom John de Castro one so singular in all Vertues as he might Cope with any of the antient Heroes and challenge a place in the Kalendar of Saints whose constant Carriage and Influence over all India is besides the universal consent of History a strong argument for some successes which might be otherwise startled at as improbable if any can be so to that Magnanimous and Hereditary preseverance in difficulties which we have shew'd to be Entaild for above an Age upon the Portuguese To Atone the imperfections of the Translation and help the Reader in the passages of so famous and memorable a Siege I have procured and gratefully acknowledge it as an eminent favour the Ma●● of Dio from his Excellency the Marquess of Sandé now extraordinary Embassadour in England from the King of Portugall which I have inserted in the proper place 18. The Death of our great and glorious Dom John de Castro left not India so destitute but the following Governours added Conquests to the State Converts to the Church King John the Third was succeeded by his Grand-child Posthumus Sebastian Born with such restless desires to enlarge his Conquests against the Moors and Infidels as his thoughts had no other object The wonderfull success of his Arms in the Indies in getting ground on his Enemies the defence of Goa Besieged by Idalcan with 35000. Horse and 60000. Foot the keeping Chaul against a Siege of nine Moneths re-inforc'd with one hundred thousand Foot and 45000. Horse managed with all the horrour resoluteness and policy of Warr and the Counsel of the most Prudent about him could not so defend him against the subtle perswasions of his admiring Flatterers as to stop his fatal Voyage into Africa Anno 1578. where after a hard March in the hea●s and deserts second only to that of Resolute Cato's engaging with incredicle numbers of the Enemies he is by some supposed to be the third King slain in the Battail though others fond of their own Grief and his Memory tell compassionate and tender Stories of his disguise and escape and thinking so great a Light could not go out with out its last amasing Blaze believe Sebastian not yet Dead 19. Henry the Cardinal Son to King Emanuel and great Uncle to Sebastian was on his Death by the Civillians Nemine contradicente asserted King and accordingly receiv'd by the Kingdome his old Age which allow'd him but the Reign of one Year and five Moneths and the Character of his Spiritual orders beautified in him by the chast and exemplary Austerity of a Prince obliged him to endeavour to settle the Succession by appointing a meeting of the States at Almeirim there to hear the pretensions of those five Rivals who Courted the Crown The Competitors were Antonio Prior of Crato natural Son to the Infante Dom Lewis second Son to King Emanuel who for some Weeks carried himself as King at Lisbone by coyning Money and conferring Honours till forc'd away by the Duke of Alva fled to Porto thence got into France and in the year 1589. assuring Queen Elizabeth That all the Portuguese would unanimously acknowledge him if he got Footing there the Fleet design'd for the West-Indies under the Command of Captain Drake appeared in his Favour but the Portuguese answered not his expectation His only prejudice was his not being Legitimate Raynusius Duke of Parma Grand-child to Edward the fourth Son to King Emanuel by his eldest Daughter Mary excluded because the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdome provide in case a Daughter Marry out of Portugall against a Strangers pretending in her Right Catharine Dutchess of Barganza second Daughter to Edward but with the Legal advantage of having Married in the Kingdome Philip the second King of Spain Grand-child to King Emanuel by his eldest Daughter Elizabeth Married to the Emperour Charls the Fifth Emanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy Grand-child to King Emanuel by his second Daughter Beatrix Married to Charls Duke of Savoy Philip the second King of Spain having chased Prior Antonio out of Lisbone was acknowledged King of Portugall and went in Person to Lisbone in June 1581. 20. The Restauration of King John the Fourth to the Kingdome and Crown of Portugall Anno 1640. is eminently observable That the Possession of the King of Spain for threescore years had not made the Portuguese loose their Courage or Hopes to effect their desires That the King of Spain should make the Duke of Braganza whose pretences to the Crown and affections of the People he very well knew Grand-master of the Artillary who in dischage of his trust seemed to refuse the offer of the Crown That a secret intrusted with six hundred should not miscarry That the design should be perfected with only the Death of the Secretary And that its influence should be so general and powerfull as the Castillians were every where and almost at the same time laid aside particularly in Brazil where they were totally extirpated And where afterwards the States of Holland found this policy of the Portuguese seconded by the Courage of their Ancestors in taking the Reciffe in Pernambuck Ianuary 1654. a place the States with a Fleet of fifty Ships had taken from the Spaniard 1630. of such consequence That whilst the Crowns were united in one the Recovery of it was the great Debate of the Councils attempted by the Admiral Dom Antonio de Oquendo 1631. Afterwards for many years

all He kept the Souldiers as what would prove the Ruine of the State from Merchandizing He set upon no Action which he did not atchieve being ready in Execution mature in Counsel amidst the employments of a Souldier he preserv'd the virtues of a Religious man was frequent in visiting Temples a great honourer of Church-men mercifull and liberal to the Poor had great Devotion to the Cross of Christ which he Reverenc'd in its Figure by a low inclination without any difference of time or place and so Religiously was he fir'd with the Worship of this most holy Representative as he rather chose to Build a Temple to its Memory then raise a House to his Posterity leaving it on his Fatherly blessing to his Son Dom Alvaro that if he found in the favour or justice of the King any recompence for his Services he should with that Build a Convent for the Franciscan Recollets in the Mountain of Sintra and name the House The invocation of the Holy Cross. Dom Alvaro de Castro Heir apparent to the virtues of so pious a Father gave order for Building the Convent not so great for the Majesty of the Pile as for the Sanctity of the Penitents who Inhabit there Being the first time sent from King Dom Sebastian Embassadour to Pope Pius the Fourth he obtain'd of him to priviledge the Altar of the Convent for all Masses and on the day of the Invention of the Cross Plenary indulgence to all those who pray'd for the pressing necessities of the Church and designedly for the Soul of Dom Iohn de Castro so singular and unusual a grace as we have not known granted to Soveraign Princes It is apparent the Fame of his Victories was as loud in Italy as that of his Virtues attested by so Illustrious a testimony from the Vicar of Christ for these and other Virtues we believe he now enjoys in Heaven nobler Palmes in a more eminent Triumph He had three Sons who all expos'd themselves to the dangers of Warr as their Fathers blessing Dom Miguel the Youngest who in the Reign of King Dom Sebastian went to the Indies and Dy'd in the Government of Malaca Dom Fernando burnt in the Mine at Dio Dom Alvaro with whom he seem●d to share his Palmes and Victories the Son and Companion of his Fame who returning to the Kingdome without any other Riches then the Wounds he receiv'd in the Warr Married Dona Anna de Attayde Daughter to Dom Lewis de Castro Lord of the House of Monsanto He was a particular Favourite to King Dom Sebastian entrusted by him in the greatest Affairs and places of the Kingdome went on diverse Embassies to Castile France Rome and Savoy Was of the Council of State and sole Superintendent of the Exchequer and in the midst of so eminent Offices Died Poor though he Deceast a Favourite The END An Index of the Most Observable things in this History A. Adem A City of Arabia the Situation lib. 4. num 73. pag. 242. Rax Soliman seiseth on it by Treachery lib. 4. num 74. pag. 243. Is succeeded by Marzaon ibid. The Inhabitants offer it to the King of Campar ibid. He desires aide and offers a Fortress there to Dom Manoel de Lima lib. 4. num 76. pag. 245. The Inhabitants receive Dom Payo de Noronha who comes to relieve them lib. 4. num 79. pag. 245. Being forsaken by him they give notice of it to the Governour lib. 4. num 80. pag. 246. The Gallantry of some Portuguese in this Warr lib. 4. num 84. pag. 248. The Turks besiege the City lib. 4. num 86. pag. 249. They enter by Treachery lib. 4. num 87. pag. 250. How the Arabbs forsaken by us behave themselves lib. 4. num 87. pag. 249. Dom Affonso de Noronha Governour of Ceita lib. 1. num 25. pag. 13. He receives Dom John de Castro with great ceremony lib. 1. num 30. pag. 17. Agacaim The Governour Dom John de Castro arrives at the City lib. 4. num 62. pag. 237. Falls upon the Inhabitants lib. 4. num 63. pag. 238. They fly lib. 4. num 64. pag. 238. Dom Alvaro de Castro persues them lib. 4. num 65. pag. 238. They face about lib. 4. num 66. ibid. Their General falls lib. 4. num 66. pag. 239. Dom Alvaro Bacaon Admiral of the Emperours Navy lib. 1. num 25. pag. 13. Visits Dom John de Castro on Board lib. 1. num 28. pag. 15. They discouse about the Fight ibid. Resolve to engage ibid. Dom Alvaro changeth his Opinion lib. 1. num 28. pag. 16. Dom Alvaro de Castro Goes to the Indies with his Father lib. 1. num 17. pag. 8. Is Knighted by Dom Estevaon da Gama lib. 1. num 20. pag. 10. Returns with his Father to the Kingdome lib. 1. num 21. pag. 10. Goes to relieve Alcacer Ceguer lib. 1. num 30. pag. 17. Goes again to India with his Father lib. 1. num 37. pag. 20. Goes against Hidalcaon lib. 1. num 59. pag. 38. Sets Sail with six Ships lib. 1. num 60. pag. 38. The prize he takes ibid. After destroying the City of Cambre returns for Goa lib. 1. num 65. pag. 42. Goes with relief to Dio lib. 2. num 88. pag. 108. The Commanders who go with him ibid. The difficulties of the Voyage lib. 2. num 122. pag. 127. Is forc't back to Bacaim ibid. Sets forth from thence for Dio lib. 2. num 125. pag. 130. Is forc't back again lib. 2. num 156. p. 148. Sets Sail again and puts in at Agacaim lib. 2. num 158. pag. 14● Takes a Ship belonging to Cambaya ibid. Arrives at Dio with forty Ships ibid. His reception by the Commander ibid. Takes his Post on the Work where his Brother Dom Fernando was Kill'd pag. 150. Adviseth his Father of the state of the Fortress lib. 2. num 159. pag. 150. Is against the Souldiers Sallying forth on the Enemy lib. 2. num 162. pag. 152. But seeing their resolution bears them company lib. 2. num 163. pag. 152. His Courage and Discipline lib. 2. num 166. pag. 153. He gets upon the Wall and being hurt with a stone falls down as Dead pag. 154. Refuseth a great Ransome offered him by Rumecaon for a Janizary Captain lib. 2. num 179. pag. 161. The Governour being arriv'd at Dio gives him 800 Portuguese for the Fight lib. 3. num 14. pag. 178. His Courage in the Action lib. 3. num 17. pag. 183. The danger he is in lib. 3. num 22. pag. 185. He enters the City pag. 186. The Governour his Father makes him a Commander against Hidalcaon lib. 4. num 38. pag. 226. He fights in the Van-guard with extraordinary Courage lib. 4. num 41. pag. 227. Makes the Enemy fly ibid. Goes to Dio with his Father the Governour lib. 4. num 43. pag. 228. Goes to Surat lib. 4. num 44. pag. 229. Sends Dom Iorge de Menezes to get Intelligence lib. 4. num 45. ibid. And after him other

by the greatest Preparations and most eminent Persons of both Kingdomes yet the complicated Strength of Nature and the Hollanders Fortifications whom their Experience had made the great Masters of that Art made it impregnable against all Attaques The taking in of this by the Portuguese alone when a King of their own made them act like and for themselves and the keeping of it against the Force and Fleet of Count Maurice of Nassau may at the end of a long Preface excuse the Recital of many more performances of the Portuguese after their Restauration Notorious for the Wisdome of the Contrivance and Gallantry of the Execution Peter Wyche WHITEHALL Aug. 12. 1663. Let this Translation be Printed Henry Bennet THE LIFE OF DOM IOHN DE CASTRO The First BOOK I Am Writing the Life of Dom Iohn de Castro a Man greater then his Name greater then his Victories whose Memory is yet fresh in the East descending from Father to Son a successive Book wherein the Fame of his Actions is preserv'd always Alive and we will add to the general Acclamations of his Glory this little shout since Records keep not so well in Tradition as Writing 1. Dom Iohn de Castro was a Renown'd Branch of an Illustrious Family But first we will tell his Vertues then his Stock the Nobility a man raiseth by his Actions being greater then that he acquires from his Ancestors He spent his first Years in that Learning and Vertue his Age was then capable of being so naturally inclin'd to Learning that he needed not be forc'd but only put in the way Dom Iohn not being the Heir of his House was intended for Study Learning being always the second Birth-right amongst the best Houses of this Kingdome Dom Iohn obey'd not having then Liberty to refuse or a School to take another Lesson in 2. He Learnt Mathematicks of Peter Nonnius the greatest Man Portugall knew of that Profession and came to be such a Master in the Science as if he had intended to profess it In this School he was Companion to the Infante Dom Lewis whose Familiarity he got into both by his Quality and Ingenuity but as Dom Iohn embrac'd Learning out of Obedience and Arms by Destiny he look'd upon the glory of the Schools as small finding himself intended for the Warrs both by his own Inclination and by his fore-fathers Example 3. The repute of Dom Edward Menezes Governour of Tangiers was at that time great whose Name the Africans heard with terrour and we with respect Dom Iohn look'd more upon his Victories then the Schemes and Circles of Euclid loving the Arts only as they waited on Courage 4. Being eighteen years Old finding himself more grown in Spirit then in Age making an escape he Embark'd for Tangiers where contrary to the Custom of such places he bore Arms nine years as if he intended to spend his Life in what was only a beginning on all occasions in that Warr he behaved himself with Courage equal to his Blood and above his Years deserving the joy of it from his Friends and envy from the Souldiery 5. Dom Edward de Menezes respected him as if he had then read in this History his Victories in Asia we are now Writing he would needs with his own hands give and receive the honour of Knighting him being proud so long before of this Son of his Discipline and considering that so great Bravery deserv'd to be encouraged by the favours of Princes desiring that Valour should have due Rewards equally favouring the King and Subject he writ to the King Dom Iohn the Third that Dom Iohn de Castro had so serv'd that now no Place or Reward could be too great for him that his Highness ought to conferr some honour on him because Kings make Souldiers by taking notice of them and it was just that in the sight of so great a Prince Vertue should not remain unrewarded 6. The King immediately sent for Dom Iohn by so honourable a Letter as if he had intended him no other recompence with that Dom Iohn came to the Court where he was as much Envy'd for his wounds as for the favour shown him The King made him Commendatory of Salvaterra awaking Deserts in others by the Value he had for them in him 7. Dom Iohn spent some time in Court without being drawn away to any youthfull Vice either by his Years or Example appearing truly a Man all along taking so well his Measures that neither his Maturity made him ill-humour'd nor his Civility facil He knew how to play the Philosopher amongst the Varieties of the Court shunning in that kind of Life what had any shew of Idleness not any thing that arguesd Discretion 8. He altered his course of Life by Marrying the Lady Leonore Coutinho his Cousin German once removed the Daughter of Leonel Coutinho a Gentleman of the Illustrious House of Marialva Nobility so known and so auntient that our knowledge of that and the Kingdome bear both the same Date He had no other Portion but the Qualities and Vertues of his Bride yet without the propps of an Estate did so maintain his Honour that he was by all treated with the respect of a Rich and the pitty of a Poor man 9. Then presented it self the Battail of Tunis an Action more famous for the Victory then Advantage in which Dom Iohn de Castro had no little share in the Honour of Danger We will give a larger relation of its success The King Dom Iohn having engaged in it his Forces the Infante Dom Lewis his Person That notorious Rover Barba-Rossa had infested all the Mediterranean with more Strength and Boldness then is ordinarily heard of in a Pirat finding Fortune so ready to assist his Daring that amidst the Triumphs of Charls only Barba-Rossa was the scandal of his Victories Seeing himself every day more advanc'd in Opinion and Forces he went to serve the Turk with whom the report of our injuries had given him credit and buying his favour with the most Valuable things he had got to be Admiral of the Seas coming often with great numbers of Gallies he very much infested the Ports of Naples and Sicily the Valour of the Natives or the Protection of the Empire to which they were Vassals not being able to defend them He made Slaves of i●finite numbers whereof divers truckt their Faith for their Liberty laid waste Provinces and burnt Ships getting a very great Name amongst the Infidels by the miseries of the Christians till forgetting his beginning his Prosperity made way for his ambition of Reigning and he usurp'd the Kingdome of Iunis by diverse Artifices which Story be●ongs not to our History Charls looking upon this Tyrant having so much force of his own that he was abetted by a far greater Power and that his Kingdoms lying so near it was not fit he should root himself at the Gates of his House that the Moors who

Goleta and more after the loss of his Galleys losing by Land the power of a Tyrant and by the Sea the strength of a Pirat yet was not this Arch Enemy so much shaken but that Italy many years after sighed under his Lash He had laid up in diverse places the best part of his Booty as an other plank to save himself upon this he presented to Solyman the Grand Signior of Valew enough to efface or excuse the disgrace of his Fleet and Flight at Tunis which was yet fresh in Solymans grief and memory withall represented what he could do against the Christians that taking the Sea at first with only two Galliots ill fitted out his Valour and Success had made him so formidable and powerfull that with their own spoils he entertain'd them with a sharp Warr that the Jaols of Africa would not hold the Slaves that in the Kingdome of Naples in all Apulia and the Terra de Lavoro he had committed such Out-rages that neither their Blood or Tears were yet dry that the Galleys of Sicily out of fear rotted at Anchor That that Andrea Doria so much sought to by the Princes of Europe could not but confess how oft he was forc'd to Row for 't to escape Barba-Rossa that he fear'd not to Cite his Enemies witnesses of his Actions that the Emperour Charls Nettled with so many Losses seeing Barba-Rossa only over-cast his Victories did more like the impatient Man than the Souldier joyn all the Forces of Germany Italy Spain and Flanders to Destroy him rashly exposing the best of his Kingdoms to the chance of his either losing or getting the Day and though his Old Fortune left him not he only got the credit of the Battail without any pro●it for Dispossessing one Enemy of Tunis investing an other in 't neither was the Victory so entire that it Cost him not Ships and Men and with the expence of so great a force he had exhausted the Exchequer of Spain that now was the true time to ruine Christendome weakned with a great Warr and grown careless with a seeming Victory that in the Streight of Gibraltar was the famous City of Ceita the Port whence heretofore the Africans with Victorious Arms entred on their Conquest of Spain which the Portuguese held with weak Walls and a poor Garrison more bent upon Disturbing their Neighbours than securing themselves from 'em because heightned with their prosperity in the East they slighted things at home like Rivers that are largest at their greatest distance from their Spring-head that if the Signior's Majesty were inclinable to bring under his Dominion that so considerable a part of Europe He would underatake with a reasonable number of Galleys to possess him of Ceita by which those who were farthest West should Live in awe of his Empire Thus discourst the Corsaire endeavouring with an others force to recover the Credit and Station from which he was fall'n And as in Princes Courts great Designs more than possible are listned to and Barba-Rossa's Experience and Valour had so good security proud and warlick Solyman began to give ear to a defign of so great Importance and so well laid for the peace and prosperity of his Empire He willingly heard Barba-Rossa perswading him that the Benefit of this Action would out-weigh the Difficulty The Moors of Africa too kindled the Turks indignation who Lamented they could not breath quietly in peace with us some bewailing their lost Liberty others the Effronts of their Prophet in their ruind Mosques for the remedy of these grievances they strive to engage the Turk upon his Zeal and Greatness which Motives concerning Religion and Majesty might veil over the Ambition and justifie the Action 24. Charls the Emperour Sollicitous what Barba-Rossa did in Constantinople knowing that that Stock whose Branches he had Lopt was not so Dry but that it might with anothers warmth produce fresh Poison did all he could to know what the Turk resolv'd about the invasion of Spain and though the first Blow was aim'd at Ceita yet Victory never stopping where it begins and unwilling to be crush'd in our ruins He ordered the providing of Ships Listing men and the doubling those Garrisons which were in the Ports of the Streights mouth writing to the King Don Iohn his Brother-in-law the News he had that they might joyntly provide for the resisting the common Enemy 25. The news coming to Portugall the King immediately fell upon Fortifying Ceita whose Defence was only after the rate of those Times and we being Conquerours in Africa kept our Garrisons by our Neighbours fear Dom Affonso de Noronha was then Governour of Ceita who was by the King entrusted with the Fortifications and had sent him Men Materials and Engeneers The Emperour desir'd the King that our Fleet might come forth and joyn with his at Cales under the Command of Don Alvaro Bacaon and so expect the Enemy in the Streights mouth where happen what would the protection of his Ports would secure their Retreat upon Debate the joyning of the Fleets seem'd reasonable that all the weight of the Warr might not lye upon our Forces 26. The King was busie in finding out one to Command the Fleet and though there were men enough in our Kingdome whom the Experience and Dangers of our Conquests had made Souldiers yet Castro's Name made it self room amongst the first t' was his Pride neither to ask or to deny any Service for his Country We know that though King Iohn lov'd his Valour he car'd not for his Right so that what he got by one Virtue he lost by an other and we observ'd not that he had any Place or Preferment about the King because so free a Spirited man might be endured as a Subject not as a Favorite The Fleet was ready to Sail a great part of the Nobility of the Kingdome on Board and the Souldiers expecting who should Command in so considerable an Expedition when on a sudden Dom Iohn de Castro was nam'd to be the Man to the general satisfaction even of his Competitors 27. The King sent for Dom Iohn acquainting him with the News from the Emperour and with the Designs of the Turk expressing to him with what Envy he sent him upon so Honourable an Employment but since it was the Royal Prison of Kings to conferr Honour and not to be in a condition to deserve it He entrusted him with that Fleet in confidence he would with the Arms of the Castro's quarter the Banners he wonn from the Turks and leave them more Honourable to his Posterity than he receiv'd them from his ancestors Dom Iohn kist the Kings hand with a sence of his Favours knowing how much better it was to be esteem'd than countenanc'd by Princes 28. On the Twelfth of August 1543. all the Fleet set Sail and in few days with favourable Winds came in sight of Gibraltar where they found the Emperours Fleet at Anchor which receiv'd ours with all the

the Sultan's Army which or'e-spread a very large Plain the report was he had brought into the Field two hundred thousand Souldiers the truth is the multitudes were so great as to cover that and the adjacent Campagnia He reported what he had seen to the Governour who heightned to see himself so fear'd would for the credit of his own Fame face the Enemy He gave orders for the weighing of the Fleet and Sail'd up till he cast Anchor in sight of an Army whose numbers drunk up Rivers and going on Shore laid out his ground and presented Battail to the Sultan So stout an Action as amongst the most memorable of the World ought not to be the second The Sultan neither accepted or deny'd Fighting but expected to be fall'n on as well as found out he saw the Governour but would not see his Sword Dom Iohn de Castro hunting after new glory in extraordinary Actions assembled the Officers and Gentlemen of name to whom he spoke to this purpose 50. We have before us the greatest King of Asia and greatest Army Fortune is seeking out occasions to make us glorious that after this Victory we may lay up our Arms in the obedience of the East I allow the great inequality betwixt the Armies but we count not our Troops by number but gallantry Those are the same we so lately beat at Dio we need not give 'em new Wounds only make the Incision greater of those which are yet open their numbers heighten their fear seeing all ways of saving themselves Obstructed if but yesterday when they held us Besieg'd they left us the Field how will they stand in our way when Victorious They who have lost their own honour are but ill maintainers of their Kings our strength is greater then the Enemies on our side fight Fame and Victory I believe there 's none here who would part with his share of this days glory 51. The Gentlemen and Souldiers disswaded the Governour from so hazardous an attempt for in so disproportionable Forces the very Victory was blame-worthy that great men trusted more to Reason then Fortune that he should look to his preservation having an over-plus of Fame that 't was enough to have Landed and on his own ground bid the Sultan Battail The Governour suffered himself to be overcome by those Reasons more apprehending the fault then danger Dom Iorge desir'd five hundred Musquetteers with them to Skirmish with the Enemy but as they had put by Castro's full Blow for the Battail he seem'd unwilling to give the Sultan so sleight a Wound He staid three hours in the Field without the Enemies moving then re-imbark't his Souldiers so unscar'd and full of security as if in one of the States Ports the most glorious Action we ever perform'd without Blood 52. The Governour from Baroche crost over to Dio and sent some Ships into the Bay of Cambaya to destroy those places on the Coast our Sword had pardoned these spoil'd the Gardens and Groves of Plam-trees Planted for the Inhabitants maintenance and recreation burnt store of Ships pull'd down Stately buildings whose destruction and memory is yet preserv'd in their waste Ruins 53. The Governour recovered Dio where the Commander in chief came to receive him at the Sea-side and the Natives of the Island made Holy-day as proud to be under the subjection of so Valiant an Enemy Dom Iohn Mascarenhas put him in mind of the leave he had obtain'd to go for the Kingdome which the Governour was unwilling to grant nor could deny some Gentlemen had refus'd the Government of the place fearing as appear'd not to have the same opportunities as their Predecessours Lewis Falcaon who came from being Governour in Ormus came then into Port before him had come to the Governour some complaints of his Carriage tolerable because not discrediting the Courage and Justice of his Government The Governour in private acquainted him with the accusations laid to his charge by his Enemies which as a Friend he was willing to forget could not as a Magistrate that he might by new Services silence all former miscarriages remaining in that Fortress which had so on it the Eyes of his Majesty and the whole World Lewis Falcaon accepted it thanking the Governour for so honourable Correction offering besides to spend in the place what he had got in Ormus or possest in the Kingdome Dom Iohn de Castro with signal favours commended and provok't this Gallantry 54. Upon concluding the business of Dio the Governour set Sail directly for Bacaim going in sight of the Coast of Por and Mangalor where he Burnt the Cities of Pate and Patane the Inhabitants to avoid the Lash sav'd their Lives and part of their Estates in the Mountain wanting Courage or Conduct to defend themselves or Dye in their Houses one hundred and fourscore Vessels which lay in several Ports were Burnt by his Order the poor owners with unprofitable tears looking on The crys and groans were heard at a distance and despis'd by Anger and Victory The Governour gave order to spare some Old men and Children who could not save themselves Compassion importune to the Souldiery pleasing to Huma●ity the Booty was given up to the Fire the Prize not being so notable as the desolation many other places on that Coast of no name were Destroy'd this Siege of Dio being more famous for Vengeance then Victory 55. The Governour went from hence to Bacaim resolving to spend the rest of that Summer in the Warr of Cambaya thence he sent some Spies to observe the March of the Enemy who inform'd him that in the Court at Amadebat there was not a Family without tears and that the Sultan by a severe Decree had forbid the mentioning the Siege and Battail of Dio as if Laws could command grief and memory The Governour heard by the same Envoys that the Fortresses of Surat and Baroche were quitted at the sight of Dom Alvaro 's Fleet and that he might by Scale have taken them had he not been hindered by the disswasions of his Officers which Dom Iohn de Castro took so to heart as if 't were necessary to divine opportunities and his temper burst forth into words which accus'd the Commanders of the Fleet of neglect and remisness 56. The Governour employ'd the short Leisure he had at Bacaim in writing for the Kingdome making so honourable mention to the King of those who had serv'd him as amongst so many eminent Virtues this zeal or gratitude seem'd to be singular and the Souldiers thereby improv'd in Courage having security that their General would not be wanting in his Zeal or Rewards 57. Hidalcaon considering that the States strength was though Triumphant broken with so many Victories came in again to get possession of the In-land with an Army of twenty thousand Foot under the Command of Casa Batecaon a stout Turk born in Dalmatia experienc't in the Languages and Discipline