A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c17.s1.19

c17.s1.19

Correa, who was in India at the time, having gone thither in 1512 or 1514, mentions¹ that de Sequeira left Goa for the Red Sea in January 1520, and that “at that time” (*neste tempo*—the expression is unfortunately vague) war broke out between Vijayanagar and Bījapûr. After its close the Hindu king sent a message to “Ruy de Mello, captain of Goa,” in the absence of the governor-general, regarding the mainlands of Goa. Correa does not mention distinctly the year in which this occurred, but the edition of 1860 at the head of the page has the date “1521.” This, however, must be an error on the part of the editor, for in May 1521 Sequeira was not absent, and therefore the year referred to cannot be 1521; while in May 1522 Dom Duarte de Menezes, and not Sequeira, was governor-general.² Sequeira sailed for Portugal January 22, A.D. 1522.