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Pětâni with all haste, "because," as Pinto naively re- marks, the whole Country thereabouts was in an up- roar." This, it may be noted in passing, was a condition into which the visits of the Portuguese adventurers were apt to throw the native States which these gentry hon- oured with their attentions.

At Pětâni there presently arrived Antonio de Faria, who was probably a relative of Pedro de Faria, the Gov- ernor of Malacca. He had been sent to ratify a treaty of friendship already existing between the Portuguese and the Râja, but he had brought with him a large con- signment of private merchandise, and since he could not sell it at a satisfactory profit in Pětâni, he sent Pinto with it to Lîgor, a little State further to the north on the east- ern shores of the Malay Peninsula. Here Pinto, while lying outside the bar, was set upon by native pirates, robbed of his ship and her cargo, and only saved himself by swimming ashore with such of his European compan- ions as had survived the fight. After terrible hardships he made his way back to Pětâni, and reported what had befallen him to Antonio de Faria, adding the information, which avowedly rested upon the merest guess-work, that the pirate who had used him so evilly was one Coio Acem,—probably Dato' Kâya Akhim, or some similar name and title. Upon hearing this Antonio de Faria at once determined to put to sea in search of this marauder, whose act of piracy (if indeed he had committed the deed) had ruined the ambassador, since the captured cargo had been bought with money borrowed in Malacca, and de Faria had now no means of discharging his liabilities.