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Indian Generals withdraw in
resentment. The Pacha lands. A man 300 years old. Women burn
themselves. The Fleet removes.
V. A Bulwark Surrenders to the Turks, who make Galley-slaves of the
Portuguese Garrison; with several other incidents of the siege.

VI. Farther particulars of the siege, to the retreat of the Turks, and the
commencement of their Voyage back to Suez.
VII. Continuation of the Voyage back to Suez, from the Portuguese
factory at Aser, to Khamaran and Kubit Sharif.
VIII. Transactions of the Pacha at Zabid, and continuation of the
Voyage from Kubit Sarif.
IX. Continuation of the Voyage to Suez, along the Arabian Shore of the
Red Sea.
X. Conclusion of the Voyage to Suez, and return of the Venetians to
Cairo.
CHAP. III. The Voyage of Don Stefano de Gama from Goa to Suez, in
1540, with the intention of Burning the Turkish Gallies at that port.
Written by Don Juan de Castro, then a Captain in the Fleet; afterwards
governor-general of Portuguese India.
Introduction.
SECT. I. Portuguese Transactions in India, from the Siege of Diu by
the Turks, to the Expedition of Don Stefano de Gama to Suez.
II. Journal of the Voyage from Goa to the Straits of Bab-el-Mandub.
III. Continuation of the Voyage, from the Straits of Bab-el-Mandub to
Massua.
CHAP. III. SECT. IV. Digression respecting the History, Customs, and
State of Abyssinia.
V. Continuation of the Journal of De Castro from Massua to Swakem.
VI. Continuation of the Voyage from Swakem to Comol.
VII. Continuation of the Voyage from the Harbour of Comol to Toro or
Al Tor.

VIII. Continuation of the Voyage from Toro or Al Tor to Suez.
IX. Return Voyage from Suez to Massua.
X. Return of the Expedition from Massua to India.
XI. Description of the Sea of Kolzum, otherwise called the Arabian
Gulf, or the Red Sea. Extracted from the Geography of Abulfeda.
POSTSCRIPT.--Transactions of the Portuguese in Abyssinia, under
Don Christopher de Gama.
CHAP. IV. Continuation of the Portuguese transactions in India, after
the return of Don Stefano de Gama from Suez in 1541, to the
Reduction of Portugal under the Dominion of Spain in 1581.
SECT. I. Incidents during the Government of India by Don Stefano de
Gama, subsequent to his Expedition to the Red Sea.
II. Exploits of Antonio de Faria y Sousa in Eastern India.
III. Transactions during the Government of Martin Alfonso de Sousa,
from 1542 to 1543.
IV. Government of India by Don Juan de Castro, from 1545 to 1548.
V. Transactions of the Portuguese in India, from 1545 to 1564, under
several Governors.
VI. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions in India, from 1564 to
the year 1571.
VII. Portuguese Transactions in India from 1571 to 1576.
CHAP. IV. SECT. VIII. Transactions of the Portuguese in
Monomotapa, from 1569 to the end of that separate government.
IX. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions in India, from 1576 to
1581; when the Crown of Portugal was usurped by Philip II. of Spain

on the Death of the Cardinal King Henry.
X. Transactions of the Portuguese in India, from 1581 to 1597.
XI. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions in India, from 1597 to
1612.
XII. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions, from 1512 to 1517.
A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND
TRAVELS.

PART II. BOOK II. CONTINUED.

CHAPTER XI.
EARLY ENGLISH VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY TO AMERICA.
INTRODUCTION.
Although we have already, in the Introduction to the Second
Chapter of
this Book, Vol. III. p. 346. given some notices of the voyages of John
and Sebastian Cabot to America in the service of Henry VII. and VIII.
it appears proper on the present occasion to insert a full report of every
thing that is now known of these early navigations: As, although no
immediate fruits were derived from these voyages, England by their
means became second only to Spain in the discovery of America, and
afterwards became second likewise in point of colonization in the New
World. The establishments of the several English colonies will be
resumed in a subsequent division of our arrangement.
It has been already mentioned that Columbus, on leaving Portugal to

offer his services to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain for the discovery
of the Indies by a western course through the Atlantic, sent his brother
Bartholomew to make a similar offer to Henry VII. King of England,
lest his proposals might not have been listened to by the court of Spain.
Bartholomew, as has been formerly related, was taken by pirates; and
on his arrival in England was forced to procure the means of living, and
of enabling himself to appear before the king, by the construction and
sale of sea-charts and maps, in which he had been instructed by his
brother. Owing to this long delay, when he at length presented