Husseyn Was Equally
Inveterate Against The Portuguese, Ever Since Hector De Silveyra Had
Taken A Ship Belonging To Him In The Sea Of Guzerat, Killing His Father
And Two Brothers, And Had Continually Exerted Himself In Robbing And
Murdering The Portuguese.
Owing to this loss and his determination of
revenge, Antonio de Faria was led to the performance of those brave
actions which I now mean to relate with all my usual sincerity, without
affection for my kindred.
Antonio accordingly fitted out a small vessel with 50 men, in which he
sailed from Patane on Saturday the 8th May 1540, and steered north-east
towards the kingdom of Champa or Tsiompa, to examine that coast. He
here saw the island of Pulo Condor, in lat. 3 deg. 20' N[355]. and then to
the eastwards rounded one six leagues from the coast of Cambodia.
Entering the port of Bralapisam, he found there a vessel of the
Lequii, having on board an ambassador from the prince of the island of
Lossa[356] in 36 deg. of north latitude, for the king of Siam. As soon as
this vessel espied the Portuguese ship, it weighed anchor and sailed
away. Faria sent after them a Chinese pilot with a civil message, who
brought back this remarkable answer, "We return thanks: The time will
come when our nation shall have commerce with that captain in real
friendship, through the law of the supreme God, whose clemency is
boundless, since by his death he gave life to all mankind, and remains
an everlasting faith in the house of the good.
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