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90 Sodre had in the same year, 1503, carried the war into the enemy 's waters. After cruising for a time along the Malabar coast, to protect the Portuguese factories, Sodre struck across the Indian Ocean to intercept the Egyptian traders as they passed out of the Red Sea, but he was wrecked off Socotra and perished together with three ships. In India the two Albuquerques built a fort at Cochin by consent of the raja whom they had rescued from the clutch of Calicut, established a new factory at Quilon, and severely punished the Zamorin. In his agreements with the coast chiefs, Affonso was careful to secure the ancient rights of the St. Thomas Christians, and a chapter of his Commentaries is de- voted to the subject. At Quilon he insisted " that the civil and criminal jurisdiction should be under the con- trol of the native Christians as it had always been hitherto," and commanded the Portuguese factor, or agent, whom he left behind " to act in all things con- formably to their counsel." Affonso de Albuquerque, after quarrelling with his cousin Francisco, returned to Lisbon with a rich cargo in July, 1504: Francisco was lost on his way home, together with the squadron under his command. Their departure gave the signal for renewed hostil- ities by the Zamorin against Cochin. But Duarte Pa- checo, the captain of Albuquerque's lately erected fort, with its garrison of one hundred to 150 Portuguese and three hundred native soldiers, feebly aided by the Cochin levies, beat back all attacks, and finally routed the Zamorin 's huge forces by land and sea. Pacheco