The Captain-Major, highly satisfied, retired, the trumpets blowing before him until he reached the factory, where he took up his abode for the night. Next day the overseer brought the Captain-Major twenty pieces of fine white stuff embroidered with gold, and twenty other pieces of stuff also white, and ten of coloured silk; also four large loaves of benzoin and fifty bags of musk, as well as six basins and six jars of porcelain. The overseer said that the King sent these things for Vasco da Gama's own use, and that when he went away he would send more for his King. Other presents were returned, and everything appeared to go on smoothly. Vasco da Gama was much struck by the barbaric splendour of this petty Oriental potentate, little aware that in the far-off interior there were other sovereigns possessed of infinitely greater wealth and power, with whom the Portuguese would have found it impossible to contend. CHAPTER TWELVE. VOYAGE OF VASCO DA GAMA CONCLUDED--A.D. 1498-9. Treacherous trick to entrap Vasco da Gama--The Castilian warns him not to complain--Badly treated--Carried from place to place a prisoner-- Sends on board for merchandise--Still kept a prisoner--Orders his brother to set sail for Spain--Nicolas Coelho refuses to desert him--He again sends, ordering the hostages to be set free--The King learns the treachery of the Moors and makes amends to Vasco da Gama--The Moors threatened with vengeance--The ships sail for Cananor--The King sends provisions and invites the captains to land--Nicolas Coelho sent with presents--The King has a pier and pavilion built, extending into the sea--The Captains visit him in great state--Davane leaves them--Sail and anchor in a harbour of the islands of Angediva--Native vessels--Friendly fishermen--Plot of a pilot to destroy the Portuguese--A Jew Admiral of the King of Goa sent to capture them--The Jew seized--Confesses--His fleet of fustas destroyed--The survivors made slaves--The Jew turns Christian--The ships sail across the Indian Ocean--Dreadful sickness-- Mombas bombarded--A fleet of zambuks out of Pate attacks the Portuguese--Driven off--Second visit to Melinda--Pass close round the Cape of Good Hope--Many deaths--The Sargarco Sea--Reach the island of Tercejra--Death of Paulo da Gama--Enter the Tagus the 18th of September, 1499--Vasco da Gama cordially received by the King, who gives him the title of Dom--Nicolas Coelho exhibits the treasures to the Queen--Second voyage of Vasco da Gama--Anchade reaches China--Macao founded--Sequeiro sails up the Red Sea to the country of the Emperor of Ethiopia--The supposed Prester John--The Moluccas discovered by Abreu--Third voyage of Dom Vasco da Gama as Viceroy of India--His magnificent state in 1524-- His death at Cochin, the same year--Buried at Vidigueira in Portugal, of which he was Count--Succeeded by his son Dom Estevan.