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Identifier: lifeofferdinandm00guil

Title: The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Guillemard, F. H. H. (Francis Henry Hill), 1852-1933 Parr, Charles McKew donor Parr, Ruth, donor
Subjects: Magalhães, Fernão de, d. 1521 Voyages around the world
Publisher: London Liverpool : George Philip & Son
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Brandeis University Libraries

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on the latter ship, after she had struck, they foundthe body of Nahodabeguea, the organiser of the plotagainst Sequeira.^ 1 De Goes relates a fable concerning this occurrence, embodying abelief which is not uncommon in many parts of the world. They findthe body hacked to pieces, but no blood flows. On his wrist is abracelet in which is set the bone of a species of large cattle foundin Siam, called Cabis. On pulling this off, the blood gushes out,and Nahodabeguea dies instantly. 1511.] SERVICE WITH ALBUQUERQUE, 65 On the ist July, 15 ii, the fleet arrived off Malacca.^It was not until six weeks later that the city fell.Although unprovided with fortifications, the number ofcannon it mounted and of fighting men by whom it wasgarrisoned made its redviction no easy matter. In thehistory of Portuguese India the taking of Malacca byAlbuquerque is perhaps the most striking event, notless from its poHtical import than from the difficulty ofthe task and the richness of the booty,^ Upon the pro-

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MAI.ACCA (from Coi-rea). tracted struggle which ended so fortunately for theViceroys forces it is unnecessary to dwell. Even at thisperiod Magellan had not yet fought himself into thefirst half-dozen or so of distinguished captains whosenames and individual deeds were thought worthy ofmention by the chroniclers of that date. For the present,he remained for the most part hidden in the obscurity 1 Correa states that the fleet arrived in mid-June (vol. ii. pt. i.p. 219). 2 * Se tomou despojo de grao valor, o mor que nunqua se tomounestas partes, nem outro tal tomara.—Correa, Lendas da India,vol. ii. pt. i. p. 248. See also Comentarios do grande Afonso dAlbu-querque, cap. xxviii. E 66 LIFE OF MAGELLAN. [CHAP. III. of the outros caualleiros valentes whose presence inthe engagements is only rarely otherwise recorded. Onewriter/ however, speaks of him as giving a very goodaccount of himself on this occasion. It is only whatmight have been expected from him, or indeed from anyone of the cou

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CONTEXT: At the time of the 1551 attack led by Japara and Johor-the last one on Melaka before 1568-the fortifications around the Portuguese settlement were very simple: except for the old Famosa fortress, they were entirely made of wooden palisades with taipa walls (that is of earth and pebbles beaten together with pestles). This intermediate stage of fortification was, in fact, achieved only after the Acehnese surprise attack of 1537 had nearly succeeded in storming the Portuguese settlement. In 1564, fearing that this unsophisticated fortification would not be sufficient to protect Melaka from the mounting pressure and growing forces of Aceh and other Muslim city States of the Archipelago, the Viceroy of India gave instructions to D. Diogo de Menezes, the new Captain of Melaka, for full-fledged defence-works to be built around the fortress, the Melaka Hill and the surrounding plain to its north and northeast. See [1]