Menezes Then Assaulted And Took The City Of Tidore, Which He
Plundered And Burnt; After Which He Invested The Spanish
Fort, and
summoned Ferdinando de la Torre the Spanish commander to surrender.
Being unable to resist, the Spanish captain agreed
To evacuate Tidore,
retiring to the city of Comafo, and engaging to commit no hostilities
upon the Portuguese or their allies, and not to trade to any of the
islands producing cloves. After this the king of Tidore was made
tributary to the Portuguese, and Menezes returned victorious to Ternate.
During his absence, Bohaat king of Tidore had died, not without
suspicion of having been poisoned by Cachil Daroez, and was succeeded
by his brother Cachil Daialo. The new king being suspicious of Cachil
Vaiaco, fled to the fort; but afraid that Menezes might give him up to
his enemy, threw himself from a window. All Ternate now mutinied against
Menezes; and as he imagined that Cachil Vaideca, a noble of Tidore,
had caused the death of a Chinese sow belonging to him, he imprisoned
that nobleman, after which he set him free, having first anointed his
face with bacon, which among that people is reckoned a most heinous
affront. Not contented with this violence, he sent to rob the houses of
the Moors of their provisions, and became suddenly most outrageous and
tyrannical. The Moors stood upon their defence, and treated some of
the Portuguese as they now deserved. Menezes seized the chief magistrate
of the town of Tabona and two other persons of note.
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