Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 159: TOME I. PART IV. CHAP. IV.

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1529. Faria-e-Souza, the Portuguese historian, arrives in India. Positive instructions are sent from Europe to obtain possession of Diu on any terms.
1530. Anthony de Silveira, with a fleet of fifty-one vessels of different sizes, crosses the bar of the Tapty river, and proceeds to attack Surat. Surat sacked, and twenty vessels burned. Daman burned by the Portuguese. The Portuguese repulsed with great loss in an attempt to aid the garrison of Choul against the Guzerat troops. Vast preparations made for attacking Diu. The fleet rendezvous in Bombay harbour. The expedition consists of four hundred sail of vessels of all descriptions, including transports, to contain three thousand six hundred European soldiers, one thousand four hundred European sailors, two thousand native Malabars and Canaras, and eight thousand Cafry soldiers, besides five thousand Indian boatmen; making six thousand four hundred sailors, and thirteen thousand six hundred land troops; in all twenty thousand two hundred men. The fleet besieges and takes Bete, and captures sixty pieces of cannon. The fleet arrives off Diu. Desperate defence by the Mahomedans under Moostufa Khan Roomy, a European Turk. The Portuguese are repulsed, and return to Goa on the 15th of March. Part of the fleet under Anthony de Saldana burns Moozufurabad, lying between Bete and Diu. He lands a body of native troops at Gogo, which is repulsed, and obliged to seek shelter on board the fleet. The Prince Chand Khan, a brother of the King of Guzerat, and a pretender to the throne, joins the Portuguese. Bassein, Tarapoor, Tanna, and Mahim (Bombay), rendered tributary to Portugal.
Nuno de Cunha governor-general of India. He enters into a league with Hoomayoon Padshah against Bahadur Shah, King of Guzerat. Daman taken by assault. Treaty of Diu concluded between the Portuguese and Bahadur Shah, consisting of the following terms: Bassein to be ceded to the Portuguese. All vessels sailing from India to pay duties at, and to take out port-clearances from, Bassein. The King of Guzerat not to assist the Turkish fleets in the Indian seas. Bahadur Shah has several Portuguese and forty Frenchmen in his service at the siege of Chittoor. He is defeated by Hoomayoon Padshah, and flies to Diu. The Portuguese offer him an asylum. They assist him with fifty officers and a body of four hundred and fifty European infantry. Bahadur Shah consents to allow the Portuguese to build a fortified factory. Disputes arise regarding the nature of the fortification. The fort of Diu completed. Bahadur Shah recovers his kingdom, and resolves to wrest the fort of Diu out of the hands of the Portuguese. Invites the governor-general, Nuno de Cunha, from Goa to Diu, for the purpose of seizing him. Bahadur Shah goes on board the governor-general's ship. An affray occurs between the Guzerat party and the Portuguese, in which Emanuel de Sa, the governor of Diu, is killed on board of Bahadur Shah's boat. The King leaps overboard, and he is also killed.