On Their Arrival, He Accompanied Them To Wait
Upon Pacheco, And Even Became Their Advocate With Him To Accept Of Their
Proferred Friendship, Which He Readily Consented To At The Desire Of The
Rajah.
Some of these princes were unable to come personally, but sent
their ambassadors to solicit peace, which was accorded to all who asked
it.
Several even of the great Moorish merchants of Calicut, that they
might quietly enjoy their trade, forsook that place and came to dwell in
Cochin, having previously secured the consent of Pacheco. Others of them
went to Cananor and Coulan, by which means the great trade which used to
be carried on at Calicut suddenly fell off.
Owing to the great resort of Moors to Cochin, in whom Pacheco could not
repose much confidence, and because, by the orders of Naubea Daring, the
paraws of Calicut frequently made excursions into the rivers, the captain-
general continued for a long while to defend the passage of the ford,
where he often fought with and did much injury to his enemies. He made
frequent incursions, likewise, into the island of Repelim, whence he
carried off cattle and other provisions, and often fought with his
enemies, always defeating them with much slaughter[10]. At length Elankol,
the lord of that island, wishing to put an end to the miseries of his
country, waited on Pacheco and entered into a treaty of friendship with
him, making him a present of a great quantity of pepper, which was
abundant in his country[11].
[1] This paragraph, enumerating the forces of the zamorin, is added to
the text of Castaneda from Astley, Vol.
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