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 XLIII
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
Of the situation of the city of Ormuz and of its commerce.
There are three places in India which serve as marts of all the commerce of merchantable wares in that part of the world, and the principal keys of it.
The first is Malaca, which lies in three degrees [N. lat.] at the entry and exit of the Straits of Singapara, of which I have already made mention. The second is Adem, which is situate in the twenty-first degree of [N.] latitude, in the entry and exit of the Straits of the Red Sea, and of this place I have related all that has come to my knowledge. The third is Ormuz, which is in fifteen degrees [N. lat.], and at the entry and exit of the Straits of the Persian Sea. This city of Ormuz is, according to my idea, the most important of them all. And if the King of Portugal had made himself master of Adem, with a good fortress, such as those of Ormuz and Malaca, and so held the sway over these three Straits which I have specified, he might well have been called the lord of all the world—as did Alexander when he penetrated to the Ganges—for with these three keys in his hands he might shut the doors against all comers. And well do I believe that if death had not cut off Afonso Dalboquerque, all these would have been in his hands. There is much which I could write upon this point, but as it is not my intention to point out the mistakes of others, I must revert to the thread of my narration.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of IndiaTranslated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, pp. 185 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1884