The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 26.1.7

26.1.7

I could write your Honor many remarckable accidents in this Gouerment and Kingdome. All the Policye and wicked craft of the Diuill is not practised alone in Europe ; here is enough to bee learned, or to be despisd. But you haue not leysure to entertayne so forreyne discourses. That Part which may bee woorth knowing — as the Proceedings of the Iesuitts, the growth of their Church, the Commixture of this Kingdome with Europe by trades, and the allyes it embraces—if I fynd not leysure to putt them into methode, I will weary your Honor with them by a fire-syde, in broken Peices. The Portugall Pursues vs here with violent hatred; but God doth Chastise him, and his Pride sees it not. The Admirall Gallion bound for Goa, a vessell of fifteene hundred tunns, armed with sixe hundred men, falling among our fleete, a small ship haled her after the Curtesy of the sea, which shee requited with sylence, except of her Ordenance. The Commander of our fleete, Beniamin Joseph, came vp with her and demanded reason, but was returnd scorne; so that hee begann a fight, in which hee lost his life. A New Commission beeing opened, Humphry Pepwell succeded him, to his Place and resolution, with the losse of his eye and other hurts fought vntill the Gallion, having her Mast shott, ran ashoare on Comara, an Hand inhabited by Moores, in the latitude of 11 degrees, 51 minutes; wher the Generall, Don Emanuell de Meneses, with three hundred escaped, but fired the ship.