English: A Portuguese depiction of Malacca in 1568, as it was sieged by forces of the Sumatran Sultanate of Aceh that year. The author is unknown.
The drawing includes two descriptions which read, on the left:
"During the rule King Sebastian, first of this name, governing the State of India was the viceroy Dom Antão de Noronha, Sultan Allaudin of the Kingdom of Aceh and other kingdoms came to siege this city of Malacca. Its captain was Dom Lionis Pereira, who defended it with two-hundred Portuguese, and the enemy brought three-hundred sails and fifteen-thousand fighting men, in which came many Turks and renegades and other people of various nations, and ten-thousand labourers. The captain had him lift the siege, killed the King of Aru his eldest son, and four thousand soldiers, the main Captains and soldiers of his army and captured from him some artillery pieces, in the year of 1568."
On the right:
"Dom Lionis had this nao put to the bottom with all the merchadise so the enemy wouldn't capture it".
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