44.

NORONHA, Dom Garcia de, Albuquerque's nephew, joins him with
reinforcements, 113:
commands a division in battle with Rasul Khan, 115:
brings despatch on Goa, 118:
blockades Calicut, 125:
leaves Albuquerque at Ormuz, 137:
Viceroy, 181:
relieves Diu, 181:
death, 183.

NOVA, Joao de, leads opposition to Albuquerque at Ormuz, 53:
signs protest, 56:
arrested, 57:
deserts him, 58:
excites Almeida against him, 61:
buried by him, 63.

ONOR. _See_ HONAWAR.

ORMUZ, its wealth and importance, 53:
Albuquerque commences a fortress at, 54:
his difficulties at, 55-57:
second visit to, 58-60:
Ruy Gomes poisoned at, 77:
Pedro de Albuquerque at, 136:
fortress completed, 137:
tribute exacted from by Nuno da Cunha, 178:
taken by Shah Abbas, 204.

PACEM, King of, in Sumatra, aided by Portuguese, 134.

PACHECO, Duarte, defeats Zamorin's army and fleet, 31, 32:
relieves Quilon, 32:
return to Portugal and death, 32, 33.

PAIVA, Affonso de, sent overland to India, 22.

PAIVA, Gaspar de, at capture of Malacca, 101.

PANJIM, first capture of, 76:
second capture, 80:
Portuguese fortress built at, 125.

PANTOJA, Francisco, Constable of Goa, 93:
passed over for captaincy, 111.

PATALIM, Ruy de Brito, Captain of Malacca, 110:
quarrels with Andrade, 133:
returns to India, 134.

PEDIR in Sumatra, Albuquerque reaches, 99.

PEPPER, Quilon chief port for Malabar, 29:
also sent from Malacca, 104.

PEREIRA, Diogo Fernandes, discovered Socotra, 51.

PEREIRA, Gaspar, his remark on the Nairs of Calicut, 68.

PEREIRA, Dom Gaspar de Leao, first Archbishop of Goa, 192.

PEREIRA, Dom Leonis, defends Malacca against Achinese, 197, 199.

PERSIA. _See_ ISMAIL SHAH.

PERSIA, trade of, concentrated at Ormuz, 53, 54.

PERSIAN GULF, ancient trade route, 20:
Albuquerque proposes to close, 48:
Albuquerque sails for, 53:
explored by Pedro de Albuquerque, 136.

PESTANA, Francisco Pereira, Captain of Goa, dismissed by Vasco da
Gama, 175.

PHILIP II, of Spain, prosperity of Portuguese trade under, 189:
kept promises made at his accession to throne of Portugal, 201:
yet his accession a cause of the ruin of Portugal in Asia, 202.

PILOTS, the first got at Melinda, 24, 26:
service of, established, 34.

PINTO, Fernao Mendes, typical Portuguese adventurer, 190.

POLO, Marco, describes Greek Christians of Socotra, 51.

PONANI, sacked by Portugu