_ 579 _ Item: From the city of Dabhol they went to Bhatkal and obliged the city to pay 1500 xerafins’ tribute each year; after that they went to Cannanore and Cochin, and there the Viceroy handed over the governorship to Afonso de Albuquerque, not as Viceroy, but as commander-in-chief, and made preparations by loading three large ships and set sail for Portugal as he did not touch any port, 9 leagues beyond the Cape of Good Hope he went with his ships to a port called Angra da Saldanha, Saldanha being the name of the captain who first discovered the port. There he disembarked on 2 March 1510 with 200 men, and a good league inland they stole cows and sheep from the blacks and set their huts on fire. Then about 120 of the blacks turned on them, took up battle formation, and threw stones and hurled so many objects that they had to abandon the cows. The blacks positioned themselves behind the cows, sheltering behind them and driving them forward, and drove the Christians to the shore. They killed the Viceroy and 8 other fidalgos or captains who had been in India and about 50 more men.The Christians all fled to the ships, and then the blacks picked up only the weapons they found and took them away, but they did not take away cloth or clothes, nor articles of copper, tin, silver or gold, and they took their cows back home.
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