Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea, 1559-1565

Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garça (1559), São Paulo (1561) and the Misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo Antonio (1565)

C.R. Boxer, C.R. Boxer

• Publisher: Hakluyt Society
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781317131229
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire prémoderne

'Being about to write down the disastrous voyage of this great ship, it occurred to me how rash men are in their undertakings, chief among which, or one of the greatest is confiding their lives to four planks lashed together, and to the discretion of the furious winds.' So wrote Henrique Dias, an eye-witness of the wreck of the Sao Paulo off Sumatra and the subsequent fate of the survivors. His account is one of three narratives, here translated into English for the first time, of certain shipwrecks which befell the Portuguese in the mid-16th century. The other two describe the wrecking of two East Indiamen off the East African coast, and the misadventures of a voyage from Brazil to Lisbon. In his introduction, Professor Boxer describes the lives of the three chroniclers, and gives bibliographical details of their works. The narratives are translated from the original accounts which Bernardo Gomes de Brito included in his História Trágico-Marítima (Lisbon, 1735-36). The present volume forms a companion to Professor Boxer's earlier work The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622 (Hakluyt Society, 1959). This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1968.

Index

Abreu, Capistrano de, 17

Achínese, 92–3

Ajuda, 19, 156

Albuquerque, Afonso de, 12, 144

Albuquerque, Dona Brites de, 12, 15, 155 n.

Albuquerque, Dona Isabel de, 157

Albuquerque, Jerónimo de, 155

Albuquerque, Jorge de, Captain of Malacca, 12

Albuquerque, Matthias de (1595-1647) 16

Albuquerque Coelho, Duarte de (1591-1658), 15–16, 20 n.

Albuquerque Coelho, Jorge de (1539-1601): biographical sketch, 12–16;

1. and the publication of the Naufrágio 16–19, 117, 159–60;
2. accompanies D. Sebastião to Morocco, 14;
3. his role in the battle of El Ksarel-Kebir, 15, 20, 112–13;
4. his wounds in action, 15, 113;
5. as Amerindian fighter, 13, 112, 115;
6. in fight with French corsairs, 121–3;
7. his religiosity, 21, 124–5, 129–32, 137–9, 141–4, 148–9, 156;
8. his ingenuity, 122, 146;
9. patron of Bento Teixeira, 16;
10. sonnets in honour of, m, 160;
11. forbids cannibalism in crew, 146–7;
12. his signature reproduced, 157

Alcaide-Mór, term defined, 46 n.

Alfaques, 45

Almadia, 82 n.

Almeida Garrett (1799-1854), 19

almude, term explained, 50 n.

Alvares, Francisco, 47

Alvares, Manuel, S.J (1529-1571): a fine painter, 7–8, 64 n.;

1. his praise of pilot, 9–10, 62 n., 70 n.;
2. his speech to castaways, 74–6;
3. his account of Minangkabau fight, 102–3 n.;
4. other references, 10, 11, 12, 71 n., 74 n., 83, 85, 86, 97 n., 102 n., 103 n., 105 n.

Álvares, Pedro, 70 n., 73 n., 93

Álvares, Rodrigo, 152

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