nd Travancore; which last was subject to the kingdom of
Narsinga or Bisnagar. Cananor, Calicut, and Coulan only were
considered as independent rajahs, the others being less or more
subjected to the authority of these three.--E.

[12] According to Astley, his whole force consisted of 110 men. Vol. I. p.
65.

[13] This story of Reynel and the pepper promised by the zamorin, is so
confusedly told in Lichefild's translation of Castaneda, as to be
altogether unintelligible.--E.

[14] In Astley the weight of the large pearls is reduced to 40 pounds.
Even with that correction, the immense quantity of pearls in the text
is quite incredible. There must be some error in the denomination, but
which we are unable to correct.--E.

[15] The remainder of this section is taken from Astley, I. 56, being
there appended to the abridgement of the voyage of the Albuquerques.
It is an isolated incident, having no apparent connection with the
history in the text, yet seemed proper to be preserved in this place.
--E.

[16] Mombasa belonged to the Portuguese for near 200 years. In 1698 it
was very easily taken by the Muskat Arabs, who put twenty Portuguese
to the sword.--Astl. I. 56. a.

[17] No islands of that name are to be found on our maps. The islands of
Socotora, Abdul Kuria, and los dos Hermanas, are to the
eastwards of Cape Guardafu: Chartan Martan, or the islands of Kuria
Muria, are a considerable distance N.N.E. on the outer or oceanic
coast of Yemen.--E.

SECTION VIII.

_Transactions of the Portuguese in India under Duarte Pacheco, from the
departure of Alonso and Francisco de Albuquerque in January 1504, till
the arrival of Lope Suarez de Menesis with succours in September of that
year._

After the departure of the Albuquerques from Cananor, Duarte Pacheco, who
was left with the command in India, remained there for some time to take
in provisions, having along with him the caravel commanded by Pedro
Raphael, while the other ship of his small squadron, under the command of
Diego Perez, was repairing at Cochin. Pacheco anchored with his own ship
off the harbour of Cananor, and dispatched Raphael along the coast to
oblige all ships which passed that way to come to Cananor in
acknowledgment of Pacheco as captain-general in the Indies. Several were
brought in by Raphael, and were constrained to give a full account from
whence they came, whither