Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 148: TOME I. PART II. CHAP. III.

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Seventeen ships sail from Lisbon. Don Alfonso Albuquerque appointed governor-general. Don Francisco Almeida quits Goa with a fleet of nineteen vessels, and sixteen hundred men, of which eight hundred are natives, to attack the Mahomedans. He lands and burns Dabul on the 20th of December, but is unable to take the fort. He takes a Mahomedan vessel in Bombay harbour, and reaches Dili on the 2d of February. A sanguinary action ensues with the Turks, in which the Portuguese are victorious. The Portuguese massacre all their prisoners. Vast numbers of books are found in the captured vessels of the enemy. The governor of Dili sends one Syud Ally to congratulate the Portuguese admiral. A truce concluded. All the Turkish cannon sent ashore to Diu, and delivered over to the King of Guzerat.