This Address Gave Much Satisfaction To All The Assembled Chiefs, And Most
Especially To The Lord Of Repelim, Who Entertained A Rooted Enmity
Against The Rajah Of Cochin, Who Had Dispossessed Him Of An Island Called
Arrnuul.
The only person who opposed the zamorin on this occasion was
Nambeadarin[2], who was brother and next heir to the zamorin.
He strongly
urged the impolicy of driving the Christians from Malabar, to which
merchants resorted from all places of the world, seeing that the
Portuguese had made richer presents to the zamorin, than he had ever
received before, and had brought much gold and silver into the country
for the purchase of commodities, which was not usually done by such as
came to make war. He represented the attempt of the hostages to escape
who had been given for the safety of the Portuguese chief, and whom the
zamorin was pleased to call ambassadors, as the first cause of jealousy
and distrust; yet they were afterwards reconciled, and took the large
Moorish ship at the desire of the zamorin, to whom they presented the
great elephant. He said their conduct in trade and otherwise while in
Calicut was quite satisfactory to all except the Moors, who were envious
against them for interfering in their trade, and accused them falsely of
taking pepper against the will of the owners, which in fact they had done
themselves to prevent the Christians from loading their ships; nay that
this was so evident that even the zamorin had licensed the Portuguese to
take the pepper from the Moorish vessels.
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