Faria was subsequently attacked by a large junk with 15 pieces of artillery. Just as they were comme to close quarters, it was discovered that there were Portuguese on, deard, and after friendly shouts, 2 boat was lowered, and it was dia covered that the captain of the junk was a Chi Quiay Pancho had 30 Portujeuese with in his undertakings, "This report served to establish cordial relations between the and they agreed. to tra captain off Faria in pieces of the soot third of th aria consented, and on th Gospels to keep the Ar, Voip cine sence of Portuguese on a Chinese piratical junk shows that they consented also to tot mercenaries by ssuued us that resulted to tuguese of gore ing the Chin their adventures and he adds Uhimately AL de nul attacked the pirate Ca) who was killed with many of his wan a temple full of ick fu one of the boats was wrecked and some of the men were cast ashore, cand carried off led Non= tried negotiations with rin to get his men back, failed, he decided tack the city. Me had 200 men, including 7) Portuguese, and they muskets, besides lances and other weapons. 'The vessels had artillery with which to support the attack. Over 1,000 men came out from the city to oppose the attackfers, but they' were soon put to rout, Fight, tt were-disheactenod who Some 600 oldiers put up a. good
the mandarin was killed by a shot, then there at a alsughter fusitiver, the Portuguese driving them out of the oppenite gate the city like a herd of cattle, de Faria allowed his ion only hale haut to" Tout anything" they tented, ashe feared reinforce attacks' The men would not desist plundering after an hour and 80 he set fire to the town, was built Inrgely of wood, soon became un inferno.
Ningpo Colony Wiped out was reported that later the nrtugguese settlement at Liampon was utterly destroyed by: the Chine swith great loss of life In Gowen's "Asia: a Short Mise speaking of Portuguese ions, he says:" But much of the trouble which came to these tire' rivals in China, they upon themselves. Theie rapieiousnions was such that in 1545 the entire colony at Ningpo was ped out by a massacre, Williams recent Short story. China" where it is added that aft 1 naval battle at Canton, in uguese were defeated, The of war were treated by the Chinese as pirates, and wera put to death." examined euch record ind it seems impossibi the conclusion that
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