well for your Majesty to have them examined and investigated) in the
histories of Portugal, in the _Decadas_ of Barros and in the books
of Osorio, the good bishop of Algarve, [7]--who, by command of his
Majesty the king, Cardinal Don Enrrique, wrote in Latin the history
of the life, deeds, and virtues of the most renowned king Don Manuel,
your Majesty's grandfather. All these books abound in accounts of
field and naval battles, which the viceroys and captains-general of
Malaca, Goa, Calicud, Ormus, and many other places, fought against
well-known Moros of that region and those from Samatra, Java, and
Bornei, who were aided by Turks, Mamelukes, Moors from Tunez [Tunis],
and Moors who were driven away from Granada at the time of the
Catholic kings. In a battle against Alfonso de Albuquerque [8] were
seven hundred Mamelukes, three hundred Turks, and a thousand Moors
from Tunez and Granada--sent there by the Sultan of Egipto [Egypt]
before the Turks had defeated him. They peopled and filled these
islands. Every year Turks come to Samatra and likewise to Borney; in
Maluco and in Ternate these Turks are gathered against your Majesty,
and have caused a great number of Christians who were instructed in
the Catholic faith to apostatize. Moreover the king of that place
is allied with the English heretics, and the Moros have inflicted
terrible martyrdoms upon the Christians of these regions. The care
with which the Turks have always offered help, both past and present,
and that showed by the sultan at the time of Pope Julius the Second,
is well known, and can be verified in the history by the said bishop of
Algarve, book 4, folio 122. The sultan wrote to the pope, complaining
of the said kings Don Manuel and the Catholic Don Fernando--saying that
the Moors whom the latter had driven away from Granada and Castilla
had gone to Egipto to complain; and that King Don Manuel was pursuing
the Moors through the Red Sea and neighboring regions. He added that
if this were not remedied, by ordering the said princes to desist