iOO ClillONOLOGlCAL TABLE. defeats them, killing the king of Ternate, and los- ing but ofie Portuguese slave. The late governor of the Moluccas attempts to form a party against Galvan ; a revolt takes place, and the conspirators quit Ternate for India, leaving their countrymen mtich weakened by theil* desertion. Antonio Galvan proposes to the kings of Gi- iolo and Bachian, to save the effusion of blood, by a single combat with each of them, which they ac- cept, but the meeting is prevented by the interces- sion of the king of Tidor, and peace is concluded. Tabarija, king of Ternate, sent by Ataida to In- dia, is there converted to Christianity, and sent back to be reinstated in his kingdom, but dies at Malacca on his way to the Moluccas. Ferdinand Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, sends two Spanish ships to the Moluccas, which arrive in great distress, and are finally shipwrecked, — The crews being made prfsoners, are treated by Galvan with generosity and humanity. The merchants of Java, Banda, Celebes, and Amboyna, deprived of the spice trade, resolve to open a commerce by force of arms, and assemble an army for that purpose at Amboyna, which is de- feated by a Portuguese expedition sent against it from Ternate. Galvan employs himself zealously in the task of converting the islanders to Christianity j he insti-
