Riyaz al-salatin 118.3

118.3

Being freed from anxiety, the Christians commenced a trade in pepper and ginger, and obstructed others from trading therein. Consequently, the Samri advancing with his forces slew the son of the king of Kuchin, and ravaging that province returned. The successors of the slain ruler collecting again a force raised the standard of sovereignty, re-populated the province, and under the advice of the Ferengis placed a flotilla of galleys in the sea. And the ruler of Kanor also similarly fitted out a flotilla of boats. The Samri, getting enraged at this, bestowing all his treasures on the army, twice nor thrice advanced with his forces against Kuchin. At every time, the Portuguese helped Kuchin, so that the Samri did not succeed in subduing it, and without attaining his object retired. Becoming powerless, he sent envoys to the rulers of Egypt, Jiddah, the Dakhin and Gujrat. Complaining of the malpractices of the Christians, he asked for help, and sending out narratives of the oppressions practised by the Christians over the Musalmans, he stirred up the veins of their zeal and rage. At length, Sultan Qansur Ghuri despatched to the Indian coasts a General, named Amir Husain, with a fleet of thirteen war-vessels, containing a naval force with armaments. Sultan Mahmud of Gujrat and Sultan Mahmud Bahmani of the Dakhin also fitted out numerous ships from the ports of Deo, Surat, Kolah, Dahil and Jabul, in order to fight with the Portuguese.