The reforms were salutary, but they filled native and Portuguese alike with consternation and were decreed in a harsh, unconciliatory spirit. Gama came into conflict with the outgoing Governor, Dom Duarte de Meneses, and only reduced him to obedience by giving orders to bombard him in his ship. The first three months of Gama’s vice-royalty proved that the task of reforming the rule of the Portuguese in India was work for a younger man, and on Christmas Day 1524, to the relief of the self-seekers, to the grief of those who cared for the future of their country, Dom Vasco da Gama died, exactly twenty-seven years after the sight of Natal had given him the first real promise of success in his earlier great adventure. FOOTNOTES: [5] This may have been the occasion on which Vasco da Gama, closely wrapped in his _capa_, one night in the streets of Setubal refused to reveal his identity to the Alcaide going his rounds, declaring that he was no _malfeitor_. The Alcaide’s attempt to arrest him failed. [6] Also apparently called _Berrio_, after the pilot from whom it was bought (?). Since Berrio = New (Basque _berri_) it was an appropriate name for a ship going to the discovery of _mares nunca dantes navegados_. [7] It is said that only 55 out of the original 170 returned. [8] This apparently continued to be his home for twelve years, since a document of November 7, 1519, has “in the city of Evora in the house in which now lives the magnificent Lord Dom Vasco da Gama, Admiral of India.” [9] Now Kilwa; soon, perhaps, Quiloa again. V DUARTE PACHECO PEREIRA (1465?-1533?) O gram Pacheco, Achilles lusitano. LUIS DE CAMÕES, _Os Lusiadas_. Diversas et incredibiles victorias obtinens. DAMIÃO DE GOES, _Hispania_. One of the captains who sailed from Lisbon with the cousins Albuquerque in 1503 was Duarte Pacheco Pereira. Like the great Affonso de Albuquerque with whom he sailed, he was still unknown to fame. He may have been between thirty-five and forty years of age, but his subsequent glory has thrown no light for us on his earlier years; and beyond the fact that he was born at Lisbon, that he was a knight of the King’s household, and that under João II he was employed in the discovery of the west coast of Africa, we have to be content with silence. Five years had passed since the Portuguese had first reached India, and instead of peaceful trade there was war between the King of Calicut and the Portuguese, and hostilities between Cochin and Calicut by reason of the King of Cochin’s friendship with the new-comers. The King of Cochin, indeed, had been uniformly loyal to the Portuguese and had shown conspicuous firmness of purpose, and to Cochin the Albuquerques directed their course.