, stroys all the merchant vessels lying there, among
others numerous trading vessels of Java ;—he kills
six thousand persons at that place, and takes prisoners
in such numbers as to afford to every Portuguese
six slaves. He sails, finally, to Patani, and
commits depredations still more extensive, reducing
the whole town to ashes.
C. 1526. S. 1448. H. 938.
Mascarenas, governor-general of India, sails
from Malacca, against Bintan, with a fleet of
twenty-one ships, and an army of four hundred
Portuguese, and six hundred Malays. The Laksi-
mana attacks and boards one of his gallies, and
is on the point of carrying her, when she is saved
by the assistance of the governor-general. The
Portuguese storm the entrenchments and town
of Bintan ; and, though the Laksimana, who
commanded in person, makes a gallant defence,
they are taken, the town given up to pillage, and
finally razed. King Mahomed retires to the mainland,
where he establishes himself.
The Spaniards form their first establishment in
the Moluccas, on the report of the companions of
Magellan.C
. 1527. S. 1449. H. 934.
Don Garcio Henriques succeeds De Britto in
the government of the Moluccas, and makes peace
with the king of Tider.
Don Garcio Henriques, the Portuguese governor
of the Moluccas, poisons Almanzor, king of
Tidor, through his physician, whose attendance the
latter when sick had requested.
, The Portuguese governor, under pretext of
non-fulfilment of the treaty on the part of the people
of Tidor, invades the island unexpectedly, and
pillages and burns the town. The islanders, awakened
by these enormities, resolve to do all in their
power to shut their ports against the Portuguese,
and if possible to exterminate them.
The emperor Charles the Fifth, convinced of
the goodness of his claim to the Moluccas, fits out
a squadron of six ships for these islands, two of
which, with three hundred men only, arrive. The
Tidoreans receive them with cordiality, but the
weakness, both of the Spaniards and Portuguese,
prevent the Europeans from coming to open hostilities.
Don George Menezes arrives as governor of the
Moluccas, and his contests with the late governor
give occasion to a civil war between the Portuguese
of the Spice Islands.
The Spaniards, reinforced from Europe, attack
the Portuguese, and gain some advantage over
them ; but the latter, being in time also reinforced,
drive them from the island of Tidor, and compel
them to a treaty, agreeing to quit the Moluccas.
The young king of Ternate is accused by his
uncle of sorcery and secret arts, and is compelled