Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 155: TOME I. PART III. CHAP. IV.
History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 155
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1520. Ruy De Melo, the governor of Goa, occupies a part of the continent with two hundred and fifty cavalry, and eight hundred Canara infantry.
A Portuguese fleet, consisting of forty-eight vessels, containing three thousand Europeans and eight hundred natives of Malabar, sail to occupy Diu; but the expedition is repulsed, and totally fails.