Getting The Kings Permission, They Set Out To The
Number Of 80 Persons In Three Vessels, And After A Sharp Engagement Took
And Brought In These Ships To Patane, Where Their Cargoes Were Valued At
300,000 Ducats.
The people of Patane urged the king to take these ships
from the Portuguese; but he decided that the 50,000 crowns should be
made good to them of which they had been plundered at Pam; on which the
merchants paid that sum and were allowed to continue their voyage.
About the same period, Pedro de Faria y Sousa sent his kinsman Antonio
de Faria y Sousa to treat of important affairs with the king of
Patane, and in particular to preserve peace with that prince. Antonio
carried goods with him to the value of 12,000 ducats, and finding no
sale for them at that place, he sent them to the port of Lugor in the
kingdom of Siam, a place of great trade, where he was informed they
would sell to great advantage. He intrusted the charge of this valuable
cargo to Christopher Borallo, who was surprised while at anchor in the
mouth of the Lugor river by, Khodjah Husseyn, a Moor of Guzerat, who
commanded a vessel well stored with artillery, and manned with 80 Turks
and Moors. Borallo thought himself happy in escaping from these pirates
by swimming on shore, and brought the news of this disaster to Antonio
de Faria at Patane, who vowed that he would never desist till he had
destroyed Husseyn, in revenge for this loss.
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