Scheeps-togt van Pedro da Nhaya na Oost-Indien, met een vloot van 8 scheepen, in het jaar 1505 en vervolg...

1505 Son-in-law the main cause of this.

the King would not have granted it so easily; for he, for his part, and many others with him were of the opinion that one should oppose this with the strength of arms and not tolerate the Portuguese taking a foot of land, but only allow them to come to trade gold, as the Admiral Vasco referring to Vasco da Gama had done. But the King, being a blind man but of good understanding, and thereby capable of carrying out his affairs with more cunning than his son-in-law, let his initial zeal pass.
Cunning of the King.

He knew well that the climate would soon affect them, and thereby they would perish more from fever than from steel if they were to fall upon them, as war-like people are accustomed to doing. With this reasoning, he calmed his own people, with the intention of having them attacked once they were weakened by sickness, and to drive them out without the shedding of his subjects' blood.
How he calms his people.

He then feigned and granted them everything they requested, so as not to be suspected, and only to wait for this opportunity, which also came as the result will show, although they stayed here quite a bit longer than the thoughts of this Moorish King Benomotapa title of the ruler of the Kingdom of Mutapa had planned.

We shall traverse the land of Sofala here, so that the reader, knowing its condition, can have a better understanding of these discoveries, as well as the places where the gold mines are found, for which most discoveries are made and so many dangers are suffered.

Condition of Sofala.

"The entire land that the Portuguese consider
" the Kingdom of Sofala is a large territory
" which was governed by a pagan Prince Benomotapa, which
" is surrounded by 2 branches of a river originating
" from the most significant lake in this region: This