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APPENDIX F - Description of Bassora, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 161

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

Afonso de Albuquerque
Translated by
Walter de Gray Birch
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DESCRIPSAM DE BASSORA E VIAGẼIS Q' DE MASCATE SE FAZEM A ELLA.

Fasse tambem Viagem de Mascate pera Basora em todo ho anno em a qual vão tomar huma Ilha q' chamão a da Carga q' esta cento e sinquoenta Legoas de Mascate. E nesta Nauegassã se vam sempre Vendo as terra da Persia Prayas, ou Serras, pera se liurarem da forsa dos ventos Noroestes: Nem viuem Na dita Ylha da Carga mais q' pillotos que seruem de Leuar as embarcasõis a Bassora Onde se vay cõ ho prumo na mão athe entrar os Medõis q' he hum parsel de Lama de tres brasas de fundo: Brassos de Rios com que vẽ Ao Mar o Eufrates cõ Alguma distansia hũs dos Outros em q' hos mesmos pillottos se embarassem nam sabendo has vezes por q' Rio vam e susede Irem mtos. vezes seis e sete dias por hum Rio dentro e como nã Vem huma Balliza q' chamão as Bafras que os sertefica yrem Pello Rio de Basora tornão a desandar com o Corrente da Agoa a o Buscar he hâ pillotos tam destros q' Pello Cheyro da Lama conhessem ho Rio de Bassora pello qual se vay doze Legoas athe a Çidade de Bassora a qual esta situada a borda do Rio cõ hum fortalleza muy fermoza e aberto hum Riacho a mão q' A serca q' chamão Sete Larobo dentro do qual se vay estendendo a Çidade ma. Populloza e grande em Numero de Cazas com algũs quinze mil Vezinhos q' viuem mto.

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The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India
Translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774
 , pp. 232 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1884

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