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CHAPTER XLVII

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

Afonso de Albuquerque
Translated by
Walter de Gray Birch
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How the king D. Manuel repented of having ordered the return of Afonso Dalboquerque from India and sent word that he was not to come back; and of the letter which he wrote thereupon to Lopo Soarez the Governor of India.

Lopo Soarez having set sail for India in the capacity of Governor during the month of March in the year 1515, in the following August news reached the king D. Manuel by way of Venice (for he always received news from that city of the movements of the Grand Sultan and from his ambassador at Rome), that the Grand Sultan of Cairo, annoyed at the Portuguese having entered the Straits of the Red Sea, had caused a large fleet of galleys and galleons to be made ready at Suez, with a large body of fighting men and artillery to proceed to India, principally to the kingdom of Ormuz, to prevent Afonso Dalboquerque from getting possession of it. The king, disappointed at this intelligence, and sorry at having recalled him, made up his mind to act vigorously in the way of supporting his Indian forces as quickly as he could, and ordered the immediate preparation of a fleet, so as to be able in March of the year 1516 to draft a large body of them to India;

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The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India
Translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774
 , pp. 200 - 204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1884

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