VOYAGE

Of

PEDRO DA NHAYA

To

THE EAST INDIES,

With a Fleet of 8 ships, in the Year 1505. and subsequently.

1505

Fleet of 8 ships under Pedro da Nhaya.

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In the Year 1505, King Manuel of Portugal sent a fleet of 8 ships to the East Indies with the intention of joining them with the Viceroy Francisco d'Almeida. Some of these departed under the command of Pedro da Nhaya, son of Diego, a Castilian nobleman who came to that kingdom in the month of May to serve King Afonso V of Portugal. Cyde Barbudo and Pedro Quaresma set sail in the month of September of the same year with orders to cruise along the entire coast from the Cape of Good Hope to Sofala, to investigate whether they could obtain any tidings of Francisco d'Albuquerque and Pedro de Mendoza, who were understood to have disappeared within sight of that land. What the outcome for these latter 2 captains was shall be told at the end of this voyage. We shall now continue our narrative with Pedro da Nhaya.

Order of the King of Portugal 1500

Because of the fame of these mines of Sofala that reached the ears of Vasco da Gama, King Manuel commanded Pedralvarez Cabral to send someone there when he departed with the fleet in the year