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The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India
Volume I
Walter de Gray Birch, Walter de Gray Birch
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The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India
Volume I
Walter de Gray Birch, Walter de Gray Birch
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This is translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Continued in First Series 55, 62, and 69. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1875.
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CHRONOLOGY OF PART I.
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| xxxvii | Birth of Afonso Dalboquerque | A.D. 1453 |
| xxxviii | He accompanies the squadron of King Alfonso V to Otranto | 1480 |
| xxxviii | Takes part in the expedition to Graciosa | 1489 |
| Ā Ā 2. | His first voyage to Asia | [6] Apr., 1503 |
| Ā 16. | Leaves CoulĆ£o for Cochim | 12 Jan., 1504 |
| Ā 17. | Leaves Cochim | 25 Jan., 1504 |
| Ā 18. | Doubles the Cape of Good Hope | 1 May, 1504 |
| Ā 19. | Beaches Lisbon | End of July, 1504 |
| Ā 20, 21. | Accompanies TristĆ£o da Cunha | 5 Apr., 1506 |
| Ā 55. | TristĆ£o da Cunha leaves Socotra for India | 1 Aug., 1507 |
| Ā 56. | Afonso Dalboquerque fits out his fleet | 10 Aug., 1507 |
| Ā 59. | Stands off Curia Muria | 13 Aug., 1507 |
| 132. | Lands at Ormuz | 10 Oct., 1507 |
| 142. | Marks out the foundations for the fortress at Ormuz | 24 Oct., 1507 |
| 209. | Remonstrance of the disaffected captains to the Viceroy, against the operations at Ormuz | 13 Nov., 1507 |
| 170. | Letter of the captains to Afonso Dalboquerque | 5 Jan., 1508 |
| 201. | Afonso Dalboquerque takes up his quarters at the Cape of Guardafum | End of April, 1508 |
| 203. | Anchors off S. Miguel | 15 May, 1508 |
| 210. | Commission of inquiry into charges against Afonso Dalboquerque | 26 May, 1508 |
| 211. | Arrival of a fleet of three vessels from, Portugal at Cochim | About the same time |
| 218. | Afonso Dalboquerque sets out for Ormuz | 15 Aug., 1508 |
| 256. | Arrives at Cananor | [December, 1508] |
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COMMENTARIES
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OF THE
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GREAT AFONSO DALBOQUERQUE.
COMMENTARIES
OF THE GREAT
AFONSO
DALBOQUERQUE,
WHO WAS
CAPTAIN-GENERAL OF THE EAST INDIES
IN THE TIME OF THE VERY POWERFUL
KING D. MANUEL,
THE FIRST OF THIS NAME.
OF THE GREAT
AFONSO
DALBOQUERQUE,
WHO WAS
CAPTAIN-GENERAL OF THE EAST INDIES
IN THE TIME OF THE VERY POWERFUL
KING D. MANUEL,
THE FIRST OF THIS NAME.
PART I.
LISBON:
IN THE ROYAL PRINTING OFFICER,
ANNO MDCCLXXIV;
With Licence of the Royal Board of Censors, and Royal Privilege.
IN THE ROYAL PRINTING OFFICER,
ANNO MDCCLXXIV;
With Licence of the Royal Board of Censors, and Royal Privilege.
PART I.
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WHEREIN IS CONTAINED HOW THE GREAT AFONSO DALBOQUERQUE WENT TO INDIA FOR THE FIRST AND SECOND TIMES; AND WHAT TOOK PLACE IN THE CONQUEST OF THE KINGDOM OF ORMUZ, UNTIL HE ARRIVED AT CANANOR
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CHAPTER I.
How he went to India for the first time as chief captain of three vessels, and arrived at Cochim, and what further took place.
THE affairs of India being in such a state that they could not well be placed upon a firm footing, nor receive any settlement from the large fleets which the King D. Manoel kept sending thither every year, on account of the incessant war which was made upon the Portuguese who remained in Cochim,1 and upon the king who was friendly to us, by the Ćamorim,2 who had been corrupted by the bribes of the Moorish, merchants from Cairo living in Calicut,1 which they were constantly giving both to him and to his Governors,ābeing fearful of losing their trade and sailing traffic if our people were established in the land:āat this time, and to remedy these troubles, the King D. Manoel determined to send to India the great Afonso Dalboquerque and Francisco Dalboquerque, the son of JoĆ£o Dalboquerque, his uncle, to build a fortress in Cochim for the shelter of the people and the storage of the merchandise he might send. And, in order to bring this about, he gave order that six vessels should be made ready, with soldiers, artillery, and munitions of war; for these, with the others which the Admiral was about to leave th...