At The End Of Nine Days Every One Of The Moors Who Inhabited This Great
City Were Either Slain Or Driven Out, And It Was Repeopled With
Strangers And Some Malays, Who Were Permitted To Take Possession Of The
Vacant Houses.
Among these last was Utimuti rajah, whose son had
formerly endeavoured to assassinate Sequeira.
Utimuti was a rich and
powerful native of Java, of whom more hereafter. The soldiers were
allowed to plunder the city during three days. There were found 3000
pieces of great cannon, out of 8000[128] which King Mahomet had relied
upon for the defence of his city, the rest having been carried off to
Bintang, where the king and prince Al'oddin had fortified themselves.
As it might have been of dangerous consequence to permit these princes
to establish themselves so near the city of Malacca, Albuquerque sent a
force to dislodge them, consisting of 400 Portuguese, 400 Malays
belonging to Utimuti, and 300 men belonging to the merchants of Pegu who
resided in Malacca. On the approach of these troops, the king and prince
took flight, leaving seven elephants with all their costly trappings,
and the Portuguese returned to Malacca. Now reduced to wander in the
woods and mountains of the interior, Mahomet so severely reflected upon
the obstinacy of his son and the king of Pahang, that he and his son
quarrelled and separated, each shifting for himself.
[Footnote 128: This prodigious train of artillery is quite incredible,
though, twice repeated in the same terms, but it is impossible to form
any rational conjecture for correcting the gross error or exaggeration
in the text.
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