defeats them, killing the king of Ternate, and losing
but one Portuguese slave.
The late governor of the Moluccas attempts
to form a party against Galvan ; a revolt takes
place, and the conspirators quit Temate for India,
leaving their countrymen much weakened by their
desertion.
Antonio Galvan proposes to the kings of Gi-
lolo and Bachian, to save the effusion of blood, by
a single combat with each of them, which they accept,
but the meeting is prevented by the intercession
of the king of Tidor, and peace is concluded.
Tabarija, king of Ternate, sent by Ataida to India,
is there converted to Christianity, and sent
back to be reinstated in his kingdom, but dies at
Malacca on his way to the Moluccas.
Ferdinand Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico,
sends two Spanish ships to the Moluccas, which
arrive in great distress, and are finally shipwrecked.
—The crews being made prisoners, are treated by
Galvan with generosity and humanity.
The merchants of Java, Banda, Celebes, and
Amboyna, deprived of the spice trade, resolve
to open a commerce by force of arms, and assemble
an army for that purpose at Amboyna, which is defeated
by a Portuguese expedition sent against it
from Ternate.
Galvan employs himself zealously in the task of
converting the islanders to Christianity ; he institutes
a seminary for religious education, afterwards
approved of by the Council of T rent; and Christianity
not only makes rapid progress in the Moluccas,
but is spread to Celebes and Mindanao.
Galvan, after making himself beloved to such
a degree, by his great qualities, as to cause the inhabitants
of the Moluccas to propose making him
their king, is superseded in his government.
The king of Achin besieges Malacca, and is
driven from the place by a sortie of the besiegers.
Paul de Gama is sent by the governor of Malacca
to reduce Jehor, the new residence of Ala-
din, but is attacked by the celebrated Laksimana,
and defeated, losing his own life, and having the
greater part of his force destroyed.
Don Estevan de Gama, governor of Malacca,
attacks the town of Jehor, reduces and sacks it.
The king of Achin again attacks the city of
Malacca.
C. 1540. S. 14)62. H. 947.
Sultan Ala ed-din Shah the Second ascends the
throne of Jehor,
C. 1544. S. 1466, H. 951.
George de Castro renews the scenes of iniquity
transacted by the Portuguese in the Moluccas, and
sends another king of Ternate prisoner to Goa.
C. 1547. S. 1469. H. 954.
The celebrated Saint Francis Zavier, one of the