ABSTRACT
The year following, which was 1549, there was a straighter watch upon the coast by the captains of the armada, and greater vigilance in the ports and entrances of China, in sort that neither goods nor victuals came to the Portugals. As the people of the China armada saw the two junks remain alone, being induced by some merchants of the country, who revealed to them the great store of goods that remained in those junks, and the few Portugals that remained to guard them. The chief Captain, which is the Luthissi, remained so vainglorious and so pleased with the victory that it was a wondrous thing to see his joy. And he forthwith used great cruelty on some Chinas whom he took with the Portugals. And people of all conditions chiefly reproved the executions and cruelties which they had made, since it is an unusual thing in China to kill anyone without leave of the King.
