Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGY OF PART IV
- TITLE TO THE EDITION OF 1774—PART IV
- TITLES OF THE CHAPTERS CONTAINED IN THE FOURTH PART
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI
- CHAPTER XXXII
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- CHAPTER XXXV
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- CHAPTER XL
- CHAPTER XLI
- CHAPTER XLII
- CHAPTER XLIII
- CHAPTER XLIV
- CHAPTER XLV
- CHAPTER XLVI
- CHAPTER XLVII
- CHAPTER XLVIII
- CHAPTER XLIX
- CHAPTER L
- APPENDIX A Title-page, Dedicatory Epistle, and Colophon of the First Edition of the Commentaries, from the Unique Copy in the Sunderland Library
- APPENDIX B Pedigree of Afonso Dalboquerque, and Genealogical Notes of the Family. Lansdowne MS. 189
- APPENDIX C Description of Lopo Soarez, Successor of Afonso Dalboquerque, from Pedeo Baeretto de Resende's Livro do Estado da India Oriental, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 13b
- APPENDIX D Account of Curiate. Descripsam da Fortalleza de Curiate que he a Primeyra do Estreyto de Ormuz antes de Mascate, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 115
- APPENDIX E Description of Ormus, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 157
- APPENDIX F Description of Bassora, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 161
- APPENDIX G Description of Sinde, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 167b
- APPENDIX H Description of Chaul, Sloane MS. 197, f. 236
- APPENDIX I Description of the Fortress of Onor, Sloane MS. 197, f. 285
- APPENDIX J Description of the Maldive Islands, Sloane MS. 197, f. 377
- INDEX
- GLOSSARY
- Plate section
CHAPTER V
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGY OF PART IV
- TITLE TO THE EDITION OF 1774—PART IV
- TITLES OF THE CHAPTERS CONTAINED IN THE FOURTH PART
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI
- CHAPTER XXXII
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- CHAPTER XXXV
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- CHAPTER XL
- CHAPTER XLI
- CHAPTER XLII
- CHAPTER XLIII
- CHAPTER XLIV
- CHAPTER XLV
- CHAPTER XLVI
- CHAPTER XLVII
- CHAPTER XLVIII
- CHAPTER XLIX
- CHAPTER L
- APPENDIX A Title-page, Dedicatory Epistle, and Colophon of the First Edition of the Commentaries, from the Unique Copy in the Sunderland Library
- APPENDIX B Pedigree of Afonso Dalboquerque, and Genealogical Notes of the Family. Lansdowne MS. 189
- APPENDIX C Description of Lopo Soarez, Successor of Afonso Dalboquerque, from Pedeo Baeretto de Resende's Livro do Estado da India Oriental, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 13b
- APPENDIX D Account of Curiate. Descripsam da Fortalleza de Curiate que he a Primeyra do Estreyto de Ormuz antes de Mascate, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 115
- APPENDIX E Description of Ormus, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 157
- APPENDIX F Description of Bassora, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 161
- APPENDIX G Description of Sinde, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 167b
- APPENDIX H Description of Chaul, Sloane MS. 197, f. 236
- APPENDIX I Description of the Fortress of Onor, Sloane MS. 197, f. 285
- APPENDIX J Description of the Maldive Islands, Sloane MS. 197, f. 377
- INDEX
- GLOSSARY
- Plate section
Summary
How the great Afonso Dalboquerque, after having collected all his forces together, and made ready to embark, commanded D. Garcia to capture the artillery placed in the Island of Cira, with which the Moors were firing upon him.
The great Afonso Dalboqnerque having all his forces collected together for re-embarking, Mira Merjão ordered an attack to be made upon him with the artillery which he had in a tower upon the Island of Cira, with the result of killing some of our men and wounding many. Seeing the damage which the large guns of the enemy inflicted upon him, and that he could not resist them because he had no scaling-ladders nor means of getting to close quarters with them, and his people much exhausted with their labour, and the excessive heat of the weather, Afonso Dalboquerque proceeded to embark—the high tide being already close up to the foot of the wall—much against every one's wishes, for they were desirous of returning again to the combat, and wanted Afonso Dalboquerque to order the heavy guns to be taken out of the ships and put on shore and trained on the wall, so as to effect an entry under cover of their fire.
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- The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of IndiaTranslated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, pp. 22 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1884