Letters from Portuguese Captives in Canton, Written in 1534 & 1536: With an Introduction on Portuguese Intercourse with China in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century
Letters from Portuguese Captives in Canton, Written in 1534 & 1536: With an Introduction on Portuguese Intercourse with China in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... (in September 1520, apparently61), tin; Chinese, as 1 have said above, were exasperated by the discovery that he had carried off into slavery a number of their sons and daughters. They wore not, therefore, inclined to give a very cordial welcome to the next Portuguese vessels that caiuo to the Island ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... (in September 1520, apparently61), tin; Chinese, as 1 have said above, were exasperated by the discovery that he had carried off into slavery a number of their sons and daughters. They wore not, therefore, inclined to give a very cordial welcome to the next Portuguese vessels that caiuo to the Island of Trade, though at first no ill-feeling' was displayed. (it waa in April or May 1521 that a fleet of Portuguese vessels from Malacca oast anchor in tho port of TamSoJ This consisted of a ship62 from Portugal belonging to Dom Nuno Manuel and commanded by Diogo Calvo,63 several other ships from Malacca that had not been able to accompany Simao deAndradc, and the junk of Jorge Alvares, which, as mentioned above, had been detained at Malacca by a, leak. While the Portuguese were engaged in trading, some at Tamao and others in Canton, news came of the death of the emperor; and orders.were at once issued that all foreigners should forthwith leave the country under pain of death. Diogo Calvo and his companions demurred to this, as they had not completed their cargoes; whereupon the Chinese seized and imprisoned Vasco Calvo, Diogo Calvo's brother, and other Portuguese who happened to bo then in Canton, and attacked and captured a number of Portuguese and Siamese ships and junks, killing very many persons and imprisoning others. They also formed a fleet of armed jnnks, and proceeded lo blockade Uiogo Calvo's ship and the seven or eight Portuguese junks that lay at Tamao.64 61 The Portuguese historians do not record tho date of Simiio do Andrade'a departure from China; but in tho letter given below Christovao Vicyra states that on 2nd August 1520 the ambassador's party sent from Poking letters which "reached Jorge Botelho and Diogo Calvo in the...
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