_ 474 _ In the same year (1507) Afonso de Albuquerque achieved a double victory over Ormuz, as written by Antonio Dias Farinha, dated 1507:(15) The irruption of the Portuguese into the Indian Ocean had as its object the replacement of the Levant route, by which spices and other produce of the Orient were brought to Europe, with one which led to the port of Lisbon by way of the Cape of Good Hope. This project required the existence of a commercial fleet capable of transporting merchandise for long distances and of a naval fleet able to protect the monopoly which it was hoped to institute. The ships would need support from stations on land, and whereas single factories could be established in the territory of an ally or in a local market, building fortresses by negotiation or by force, or attempting the (15) Document no. and reference.
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