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 X
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 Gregorio da Quadra and the others, his companions, who were captive in the power of the King of Adem, escaped from their captivity; and what he went through until his arrival at this kingdom of Portugal.
Inasmuch as I have just declared that I would give some account of the Portuguese captives in the power of the Xeque of Adem, who would not take any ransom for them, and would relate how they escaped out of the captivity in which they lay, I thought it fit that I should first of all narrate how they were wrecked. It was in this way. At the time when Duarte de Lemos, chief captain, was lying at anchor with his fleet off the coast of Melinde, a great darkness and storm fell on them one night, and one of his brigantines was driven from her moorings, but no one knew whether the cables snapped accidentally or whether they were cut by design. The captain of this vessel was Gregorio da Quadra, an honourable man, servant of the king D. Manuel. The great current of water, which at that time was running direct towards the entrance of the straits, brought the ship down with it, and when morning broke the crew found themselves opposite Adem.
When the natives of the land saw the brigantine, and perceived that there were Christians on board, they fitted out two fustas and took her, and all those who were on board, and carried these men forthwith before the King of Adem, who dwelt in the city of Zebit, the capital city of his kingdom.
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- The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of IndiaTranslated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, pp. 49 - 53Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1884