Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XXI.--Spread of the Portuguese East Indian Empire--Alphonzo

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d'Albuquerque--Immense Sacrifice of Life--Ancient Route of the Spice-Trade with Europe--Commerce by Caravans--Revolution produced by opening the New Route--Francesco Almeida--Discovery of Ceylon--Tristan d'Acunha--The Portuguese Mars--His Views of Empire--An Arsenal established at Goa--Reduction of Malacca--Siam and Sumatra send Embassies to Albuquerque--The Island of Ormuz--Death of Albuquerque--Extent of the Portuguese Dominion--Ormuz becomes the great Emporium of the East--Fall of the Portuguese Empire 207