The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India

Volume I

Walter de Gray Birch, Walter de Gray Birch

• Editore: Hakluyt Society
• Anno: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781317037743
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Geschichte
• Categoria: Frühneuzeitliche Geschichte

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.

CHRONOLOGY OF PART I.

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PAGE
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
2.	His first voyage to Asia	[6] Apr., 1503
16.	Leaves Coulão for Cochim	12 Jan., 1504
17.	Leaves Cochim	25 Jan., 1504
18.	Doubles the Cape of Good Hope	1 May, 1504
19.	Beaches Lisbon	End of July, 1504
20, 21.	Accompanies Tristão da Cunha	5 Apr., 1506
55.	Tristão da Cunha leaves Socotra for India	1 Aug., 1507
56.	Afonso Dalboquerque fits out his fleet	10 Aug., 1507
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]

 

 

 

 

 

COMMENTARIES

 

OF THE

 

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.

PART I.

LISBON:
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 Çamorim,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,—being fearful of losing their trade and sailing traffic if our people were established in the land:—at 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 João 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...