r
the tide of ebb, to carry them towards the Portuguese caravels, being
too cumbrous for management by means of oars.--E.

[8] This seems the same story which has been already mentioned in a former
note, from Astleys Collection; but which is there related as having
taken place with _Moors_.--E.

[9] The nativity of St John the Baptist is the 24th June; the eve
therefore is the 23d, yet Castaneda has already said that June was
ended.--E.

[10] About this time, in consequence of a message from the Portuguese
factor at Coulan, stating that the Moors obstructed the market for
pepper, Pacheco went to that place, where he made five Moorish ships
submit, and settled the pepper market on fair terms, yet without doing
them any harm.--Astl. I. 57.

[11] According to Astley, the zamorin lost 18,000 men in this war in five
months, and desired peace, which was granted by the rajah of Cochin.--
Astl. I. 57. Yet this could hardly be the case, as the first operation
of the new commander-in-chief in India was to cannonade Calicut.--E.

SECTION IX.

_The Voyage of Lope Suarez de Menesis to India, in 1504; being the sixth
of the Portuguese Expeditions to the East Indies._

Learning the necessity of sending powerful succours to protect the
Portuguese trade from the hostilities of the zamorin, the king of
Portugal fitted out a fleet of twelve[1] large ships in 1504, of which
the command was given to Lope Suarez de Menesis, who had been captain of
the _Mina_ on the coast of Guinea in the reign of John II. The captains
of these ships were, Pedro de Mendoza, Lionel Cotinho, Tristan de la
Silva, Lope Mendez de Vasconcelles, Lope de Abreu, Philip de Castro,
Alonso Lopez de Castro, Alonzo Lopez de la Cocta, Pero Alonzo de Aguilar,
Vasco de la Silvero, Vasco Carvallo, and Pedro Dynez de Sutunell: All of
whom were gentlemen by birth or service. Having embarked many valiant
soldiers, the whole fleet left Lisbon on the 22d of April and arrived on
the 2d of May near Cape Verd. Having observed during this part of the
voyage, that several of the ships were very irregularly navigated, not
keeping in their proper course, by which they had run foul of each other;
some pushing before, while others lagged behind, and others stood athwart
the order of the fleet; Suarez convened an assemblage of all the captains,
masters, and pilots of the fleet, to whom he communicated the following
written instr