Note 9 — CHAP. I. BOMBAY TO BUSHIRE.

In 1581, the Portuguese (according to their historian Faria y Sousa) after having surprised and burnt “the beautiful and rich city Pesani,” destroyed “Guadel, not inferior.” Asia Portuguesa, vol. ii. 373. They appear to have had afterwards a settlement there themselves; vol. iii. p. 416; which before 1613 had probably been resumed from its European possessors, for Herbert in passing it, observes, “beware by Sir Robert Sherlye’s example of Cape Guader *** an infamous port and inhabited by a perfidious people. Under pretext of amity they allured Sherlye and his lady ashoare, A. 1613; where but for a Hodgee that understood their drift and honestly revealed it, they had been murdered with Newport their captaine; and merely to play the theeves with them.” Herbert’s Travels, p. 113. Ed. 1638.