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 IX
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 determined to set sail from that place to Judá, and what happened on the way; and of the sign which he beheld in the heavens.
After many days had passed, while the great Afonso Dalboquerque lay to off Camarao, because of the west winds that were blowing, one day during the night the east wind began to blow, so he, desirous as he was of performing the voyage that he had set out upon, sent word immediately to the captains to make themselves ready, for on the following day he was determined to set sail; and when morning was come they all weighed anchor and made sail, and steered out of the harbour between some islands and sand banks—a very narrow passage for ships so large—shaping their course for an island which lies in the broad sea; but just as they arrived off this island the west wind began to blow again, so they all anchored there in a bottom of from fifteen to thirty fathoms, where they remained for many days. Afonso Dalboquerque, annoyed at this westerly gust of wind, and anxious to know what was going on in the open sea, despatched João Gomez in the caravela, and Domingo Fernandez the pilot with him, to make their way to an island lying in the midst of the straits, called Ceibão, so as to see what sea and what wind there might be there, for he could not believe that this was owing to anything else than his sins.
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- The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of IndiaTranslated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, pp. 43 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1884