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Treacherous trick to entrap Vasco da Gama The Castilian warns him not to complain Badly treated Carried from place to place a prisoner Sends on board for merchandise Still kept a prisoner Orders his brother to set sail for Spain Nicolas Coelho refuses to desert him He again sends, ordering the hostages to be set free The King learns the treachery of the Moors and makes amends to Vasco da Gama The Moors threatened with vengeance The ships sail for Cananor The King sends provisions and invites the captains to land Nicolas Coelho sent with presents The King has a pier and pavilion built, extending into the sea The Captains visit him in great state Davane leaves them Sail and anchor in a harbour of the islands of Angediva Native vessels Friendly fishermen Plot of a pilot to destroy the Portuguese A Jew Admiral of the King of Goa sent to capture them The Jew seized Confesses His fleet of fustas destroyed The survivors made slaves The Jew turns Christian The ships sail across the Indian Ocean Dreadful sickness Mombas bombarded A fleet of zambuks out of Pate attacks the Portuguese Driven off Second visit to Melinda Pass close round the Cape of Good Hope Many deaths The Sargarco Sea Reach the island of Tercejra Death of Paulo da Gama Enter the Tagus the 18th of September, 1499 Vasco da Gama cordially received by the King, who gives him the title of Dom Nicolas Coelho exhibits the treasures to the Queen Second voyage of Vasco da Gama Anchade reaches China Macao founded Sequeiro sails up the Red Sea to the country of the Emperor of Ethiopia The supposed Prester John The Moluccas discovered by Abreu Third voyage of Dom Vasco da Gama as Viceroy of India His magnificent state in 1524 His death at Cochin, the same year Buried at Vidigueira in Portugal, of which he was Count Succeeded by his son Dom Estevan.
I embarked in March, 1622, in the same fleet with the Count Vidigueira, on whom the king had conferred the viceroyship of the Indies, then vacant by the resignation of Alfonso Noronha, whose unsuccessful voyage in the foregoing year had been the occasion of the loss of Ormus, which being by the miscarriage of that fleet deprived of the succours necessary for its defence, was taken by the Persians and English.
Here he was shortly afterwards seized with a mortal malady, of which he died a few minutes past midnight on the 24th of December, 1524, when he was succeeded in his vice-royalty by his son, Dom Estevan. His remains were sent to Portugal in 1538, and buried in a tomb at Vidigueira, from which town he took his title.
It is rare in history that one receives two triumphs, the one while living and the other when dead, especially in connection with the same achievement; but it is rarer still that one who has won immortality should leave a record so singularly free from bickering and strife as that of the dignified and self-contained Portuguese rival of Columbus, Dom Vasco da Gama, the "Discoverer and Sixth Viceroy of India, Count of Vidigueira," where he lies entombed.
This reverend Jesuit was commissioned in A.D. 1622, by the Count de Vidigueira, Viceroy of the Indies, to discover where his relative Don Christopher was buried, and to procure some of the relics.
The commission was directed to me, nor did I ever receive one that was more welcome on many accounts. I had contracted an intimate friendship with the Count de Vidigueira, viceroy of the Indies, and had been desired by him, when I took my leave of him, upon going to Melinda, to inform myself where his relation was buried, and to send him some of his relics.
In the year 1524 Dom Vasco da Gama was again sent out as Viceroy of India, being the second person who had held that important post. He now possessed the title of Conde da Vidigueira and Admiral of the Indian Seas.
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