Several Other Valuable Ships
Belonging To The Moors Were Taken, But The Main Object Of This
Expedition Completely Failed, As The Wind Did Not Allow The Fleet To Get
Up The Red Sea To Kamaran.
In consequence of the civil discord among the Portuguese, the Moors had
been enabled to annoy their trade in different parts:
And as Lope Vaz
understood that a successor to the government was on his way from
Portugal, he prepared to be revenged on the Moors, wishing to deliver up
the government in prosperity, by clearing the sea from pirates. With
this view he fitted out eighteen ships at Cochin, with which he
encountered 130 armed paraos at Cananor; and as the wind did not allow
his large ships to get into action, he went against that numerous fleet
with only thirteen paraos. Even with this disproportionate force he did
considerable damage to the Malabar fleet. On seeing two paraos coming
from Cananor to the aid of Sampayo, and that the large Portuguese ships
were enabled to make sail by means of a breeze springing up, the
Malabars fled as fast as possible. In the pursuit eighteen of them were
sunk and twenty-two taken, in which were fifty pieces of cannon. Eight
hundred of the enemy were slain, and many made prisoners. Those that
fled, and others who joined them, fell afterwards into a snare near
Cochin.
With the same fleet, Sampayo went immediately in search of Arel, lord
of Porca. In this expedition, Simon de Melo burnt twenty-six ships
belonging to the enemy, and set the town of Chatua on fire.
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