to fly to the citadel, where, receiving no assistance
from the Portuguese governor, he throws himself
from a window, and kills himself to avoid a more
ignominious death.
Menezes, on the bare supposition of his having
killed a Chinese hog belonging to himself, causes
the uncle of the king of Ternate, and head of the
Mahomedan religion, to be seized and imprisoned,
and, before discharging him, directs his face to
be smeared over with the lard of the animal. The
insulted prince, in consequence, flies from island to
island, stirring up the people to resist their European
oppressors.
The people of Ternate refuse to bring provisions
to the Portuguese fort.
Menezes seizes three chiefs of Ternate for resistance
to the Portuguese, and directs the right hands
of two of them to be cut off. The third, having
his hands tied behind his back, is left on the beach
to be devoured by two mastiffs set upon him for
the purpose.
Menezes publicly executes the regent of Ternate
for a pretended conspiracy, on which the native inhabitants
quit the country almost without exception.
C. 1528. S. 1450. H. 935.
Simon de Sosa, proceeding as governor to the
Moluccas, stops at Achin, where he is attacked by
the king, his vessel taken, and himself killed, after
a gallant resistance.
A king of the Sundas in Java, (possibly Prabu
Seda, the Hindu king of Pajajaran, conquered by
the king of Bantam,) calls in the assistance of the
Portuguese, who arrive under Francis de Sa ; but,
finding their ally subdued, they retire, after losing
one of their ships, the crew of which were put
to death by the natives.
C. 1529. S. 1451. H. 935.
The governor of Malacca discovers a conspiracy
of the king of Achin to destroy the Portuguese,
and take the city, and he executes the principal conspirators.
Aladin Shah ascends the throne of Achin.
The Spaniards renounce their claims to the Moluccas
for a pecuniary consideration of three hundred
and fifty thousand ducats.
C. 1530. S. 1452. H. 936;
The king of Achin deceives the Portuguese,
who, sending a mission to him from Malacca, the
ship which conveys it is treacherously attacked and
taken, and the envoy, with all his people, put to
death in cold blood.
The king of Achin, encouraged by his success
against the Portuguese, meditates the conquest of
Malacca, and intrigues with the Shahbandar, or
intendant o f the port, but the plot is discovered,
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