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 308 INDEX Mutiny of commanders of (1508), 100- 102 Government and conquests of, 102- IpS, 113-116, 147-149, 151 Project of, to divert the channel of the Nile to the Red Sea, 103-104 Fortress of, at Ormuz (1515), 104, 115, 123-124 Besieges Aden (1513), 104, 125-126 Takes Goa and establishes Portuguese power on west coast of India (1510), 105, 116, 132-134 Takes Malacca and erects a fortress (1511), 106, 115, 126-127 Employs native troops, 140, 149-150 Encourages colonization, 142 Recommends the cultivation of the opium poppy in Portugal, 152 Proposal of, to exterminate Spanish and Portuguese Jews in India, 170- 171 Mournful end of, 107-108 Albuquerque, Francisco de (cousin of Affonso), expedition of, to India, 89- 90 Death of, 90 Alcacar Sequer taken by Prince Henry of Portugal from the Moors (1458), 55 Alcacora, treaty of, between Spain and Portugal (1479), 62-63 Alexander III, Bull of 1179 of, 64-65 Alexander VI, Bulls of, granting trade privileges and monopolies to Spain and Portugal, 63, 64, 65-66, 85 Alexandria, founded 332 B.C., entrepot of Indo-European trade, 21, 23, 30-31; 175 Indian merchants in, 27-28 Supposed statue of the river deity In- dus in, 28 Venetians in, 31, 168 Library of, 48 Algoa Bay, Bartholemeu Bias reaches (1486), 57 Aliubarrota, battle of (1385), 40 Allah Yar Khan real commander of ex- pedition against the Christians at Hugli, 279-280 Almeida, Dom Francisco da, first viceroy of Portuguese India (1505-09), 93 Government and policy of, 93-99, 114, 117-118 Takes Quiloa in Africa, 94, 148 Together with his son LourenQO over- comes Arab power in the Malabar ports and defeats the Zamorin, 96-97 Victory of, off Diu (1509), 96-98, 101- 103 Cruelty of, to prisoners, 117-118 Death of, 103 Almeida, Lourenco da (son of Dom Francisco da Almeida), heroic death of, in sea-fight with the Mussulmans, 97, 102 Alphabets, Phosnician and Sabaean, 4 Malayalam (Vattelutta), 80 Alva, Duke of, persecutes the Protes- tants, 208 Amboyna, clove island in the Moluccas, Portuguese-Spanish claim to, 227 Amene, Portuguese treaty with, 127 America, Columbus discovers the islands off (1492), 62, 173-174, 175 Verazzani's expedition to, 194 French settlements in (1555-64), 194 Amurad II, Sultan, father of Yusuf Adil Shah, 132 Antonio, Don, Prior of Crato, claims the throne of Portugal and seeks refuge in England, 191 Antwerp, school of cartography at, 200 Emporium of Eastern trade, 202-203 Commerce of, 202-203, 206 Portuguese entrepot for Indian prod- uce, 202-203, 206 English, Portuguese, and Spanish merchants in (1550), 203 Ruined by Spain, 206-208 Apes brought to Solomon from India, 8 Arab navigators, 21, 49-50 Geographers, 24, 29, 30, 48 Traders in China, 28, 29 Traders in India, 29, 81, 83, 89-90, 92, 152-153, 158-159 Travellers, 30 Arabia, ancient trade-route through, 2 Under the Romans, 10-11 Opium from, 152-153 Horses imported into India from, 158 " Arabian Nights," reference to, 49 Archangel, English trade to Persia by way of, 181 Armada, the Spanish, references to, 190, 192, 197, 205, 209 Arms, coats of, of the English East India Company, 255-256 Ascalon, ancient trade-route through, 2 Asia Minor, Phoenician trade to, 3 Trade-routes to, 14-15 Turks in, 37 Astrolabe, Prince Henry's, 54 Athens, ancient sea-commerce of, 10 Atlantic Ocean, ancient and mediaeval navigation of, 48-50 Augsburg, mediaeval trade emporium, 34, 217 Decline of, 35 Augustines, convent of the, at Goa, 135 Aviz, house of, see Portugal