Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 192: TOME III. PART II. CHAP. X.
History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 192
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1609. Ruy Lorenzo de Tavora viceroy. The Portuguese make war with the King of Candia on Ceylon. Their army consists of seven hundred Europeans and twenty-five thousand Lascarins or Chingala (Cingalese) soldiers. The King consents to allow his two sons to be educated as Christians. The provincial governor of Choul, Abdool Kureem, sends out a fleet of thirty prows to cruise against the Portuguese. The viceroy of Goa remonstrates with the Nizam Shahy government, but obtains no satisfaction. Antony Pinto de Fonseca arrives in India with the title of Visitor and Proveditor of the forts in India, and is independent of the viceroy. The northern squadron engages an English fleet which arrives at Surat. The English vessels lighter and better equipped than the Portuguese. They repulse the latter.